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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. TempoIQ vs. ToroDB vs. Weaviate

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Name

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Description

A cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

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

Primary database model

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Score	0.82
Rank	#205	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Score	1.48
Rank	#149	Overall
	#8	Vector DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

tempoiq.com (offline)

github.com/torodb/server

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/polardb/product-overview

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Alibaba

TempoIQ

8Kdata

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2012

2016

2019

Current release

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple authentication-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Key customers

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