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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Rockset vs. Weaviate

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Document storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score3.05
Rank#97  Overall
#17  Document stores
#16  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlrockset.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmldocs.rockset.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAlibabaGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014OracleRocksetWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2012201120192019
Current release24.1, May 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)commercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++Go
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.schema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesoptionaldynamic typingyes 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 infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP RESTGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'nonono
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)nono
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 infooff heap cacheyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Alibaba Cloud TSDBFirebase Realtime DatabaseOracle NoSQLRocksetWeaviate
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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