DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. HarperDB vs. jBASE vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon DynamoDB vs. HarperDB vs. jBASE vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

A stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database service

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

HarperDB takes the "stack" out of "tech stack" by combining an ultra-fast document-style data store, in-memory cache, real-time message broker, and your application components into a single distributed technology.

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Multivalue DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.23
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Time Series DBMS

Score	70.06
Rank	#17	Overall
	#3	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.55
Rank	#243	Overall
	#38	Document stores

Score	1.36
Rank	#157	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.48
Rank	#149	Overall
	#8	Vector DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/hitsdb

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

www.harperdb.io

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/time-series-database/latest/what-is-tsdb

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.harperdb.io/docs

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Alibaba

Amazon

HarperDB

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2012

2017

1991

2019

Current release

3.1, August 2021

5.7

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

free community edition available

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Node.js

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

dynamic schema

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

JSON data types

optional

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

SQL-like data manipulation statements

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Custom Functions

since release 3.1

yes

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

A table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

the nodes on which a table resides can be defined

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

Atomic execution of specific operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using LMDB

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 managed on TSDB instance level

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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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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