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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. EsgynDB vs. Graphite vs. TigerGraph vs. Weaviate

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  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 warehousingEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeAn 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 DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSVector DBMS
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Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score1.83
Rank#139  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.esgyn.cngithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.tigergraph.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputegraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.tigergraph.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAlibabaEsgynChris DavisWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20162015200620172019
Current release1.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaPythonC++Go
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
Unix
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyesyes 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesnoSQL-like query language (GSQL)GraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Sockets
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin JavaJava Stored Proceduresnoyesno
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication between multi datacentersnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoRole-based access controlAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Alibaba Cloud MaxComputeEsgynDBGraphiteTigerGraphWeaviate
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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