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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud MaxCompute vs. SpatiaLite vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

MaxCompute (previously known as ODPS) is a general purpose, fully managed, multi-tenancy data processing platform for large-scale data warehousing

Spatial extension of SQLite

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a graph-processing framework is available with the graphs being stored in tables

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.96
Rank	#185	Overall
	#83	Relational DBMS

Score	1.50
Rank	#141	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.86
Rank	#123	Overall
	#11	Vector DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/maxcompute

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/maxcompute

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Alibaba

Alessandro Furieri

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2016

2008

2019

Current release

5.0.0, August 2020

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

Fluentd
Flume
MaxCompute Console

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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