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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. Kinetica vs. OpenTSDB vs. OushuDB vs. Weaviate

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NameAlibaba Cloud MaxCompute  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonOushuDB  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 warehousingFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learningAn 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 DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#98  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#355  Overall
#154  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­maxcomputewww.kinetica.comopentsdb.netwww.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDBgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­maxcomputedocs.kinetica.comopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlwww.oushu.com/­documentationweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAlibabaKineticacurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsOushuWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2016201220112019
Current release7.1, August 20214.0.1, August 20201.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoLGPLcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaGo
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesyes 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 indexesnoyesnoyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoFull-featured ANSI SQL supportGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsFluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Telnet API
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C
C++
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Javauser defined functionsnoyesno
Triggersnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infobased on HBaseyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonoHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoACIDno
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.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and roles on table levelnoKerberos, SSL and role based accessAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Alibaba Cloud MaxComputeKineticaOpenTSDBOushuDBWeaviate
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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