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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Rockset vs. SpatiaLite vs. Weaviate

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

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  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 scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBSpatial extension of SQLiteAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument storeSpatial DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaserockset.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.rockset.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAlibabaGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014RocksetAlessandro FurieriWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2012201920082019
Current release5.0.0, August 20201.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C++Go
Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedserver-less
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesdynamic typingyesyes 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.nonono infoingestion from XML files supportednono
Secondary indexesnoyesall fields are automatically indexedyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP RESTGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'nonono
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
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 ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesnoACIDno
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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelyes, based on authentication and database rulesAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consolenoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud TSDBFirebase Realtime DatabaseRocksetSpatiaLiteWeaviate
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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