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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Faircom DB vs. Informix vs. Kdb vs. Weaviate

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonInformix  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  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 warehousingNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.A secure embeddable database from IBM, positioned besides IBM Db2 as a relatively low-cost product optimized for OLTP and Internet of Things dataHigh performance Time Series DBMSAn 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 tablesKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypes compatible with MongoDBTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS infowith Informix TimeSeries Extension
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.77
Rank#214  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#318  Overall
#48  Key-value stores
#141  Relational DBMS
Score17.87
Rank#35  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbwww.ibm.com/­products/­informixkx.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmlinformix.hcldoc.com
www.ibm.com/­support/­knowledgecenter/­SSGU8G/­welcomeIfxServers.html
code.kx.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAlibabaFairCom CorporationIBM, HCL Technologies infoEffective May 1st, 2017, HCL took on development, technical support, and product management teams, and works jointly with IBM on product strategy, marketing, and sales.Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2016197919842000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 20032019
Current releaseV12, November 202014.10.FC5, November 20203.6, May 20181.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial infofree 32-bit versionOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++C, C++ and JavaqGo
Server operating systemshostedAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,yesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyes infoSince Version 12.10 support for JSON/BSON datatypesyesyes 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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsyesSQL-like query language (q)GraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
JDBC
JSON API infoMongoDB compatible
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javayes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yesuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyesyes infowith viewsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanotunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesUsers with fine-grained authentication, authorization, and auditing controlsrights management via user accountsAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Alibaba Cloud MaxComputeFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACEInformixKdbWeaviate
Specific characteristicsIntegrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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All companies that have data. ​
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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