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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Databend vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Weaviate

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonDatabend  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousingAn open-source, elastic, and workload-aware cloud data warehouse designed to meet businesses' massive-scale analytics needs at low cost and with low complexityCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tablesRelational DBMSDocument storeVector DBMS
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Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#283  Overall
#130  Relational DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputegithub.com/­datafuselabs/­databend
www.databend.com
firebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.databend.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaseweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAlibabaDatabend LabsGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Weaviate B.V.
Initial release2016202120122019
Current release1.0.59, April 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageRustGo
Server operating systemshostedhosted
Linux
macOS
hosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
CLI Client
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanolimited functionality with using 'rules'no
TriggersnonoCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesUsers with fine-grained authorization concept, user rolesyes, based on authentication and database rulesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud MaxComputeDatabendFirebase Realtime DatabaseWeaviate
Specific characteristicsWeaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesFlexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosAs a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersAll companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsAs of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsWeaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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