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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. KairosDB vs. NCache vs. Vertica vs. Weaviate

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  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 warehousingDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Open-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.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 tablesTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS infoColumn orientedVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score10.06
Rank#42  Overall
#26  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputegithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.alachisoft.com/­ncachewww.vertica.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputekairosdb.github.iowww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docsvertica.com/­documentationweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAlibabaAlachisoftOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett PackardWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20162013200520052019
Current release1.2.2, November 20185.3.3, April 202412.0.3, January 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoEnterprise Edition availablecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containersno
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Implementation languageJavaC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaC++Go
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.yes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryesyes 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 indexesnonoyesNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.yes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.GraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
IDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javanono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differencesno
Triggersnonoyes infoNotificationsyes, called Custom Alertsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infobased on Cassandrayeshorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes, with selectable consistency levelMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyesno infoBi-directional Spark integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolessimple password-based access controlAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hashAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Alibaba Cloud MaxComputeKairosDBNCacheVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™Weaviate
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Deploy-anywhere database for large-scale analytical deployments. Deploy off-cloud,...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Fast, scalable, and capable of high concurrency. Separation of compute/storage leverages...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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Communication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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Abiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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All companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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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 modelsNCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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Cost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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