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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. Lovefield vs. TDengine vs. Weaviate

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptTime Series DBMS and big data platformAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.24
Rank#306  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score2.60
Rank#107  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbaws.amazon.com/­simpledbgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
github.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.tdengine.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAlibabaAmazonGoogleTDEngine, previously Taos DataWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2007201420192019
Current release2.1.12, February 20173.0, August 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptCGo
Server operating systemshostedhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsnoyesyesyes 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 indexesnoyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applicationsGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScriptC
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
TriggersnonoUsing read-only observersyes, via alarm monitoringno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infousing MemoryDByes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)noyesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Alibaba Cloud TSDBAmazon SimpleDBLovefieldTDengineWeaviate
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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As 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 metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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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 modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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