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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud TSDB vs. Lovefield vs. MarkLogic vs. PieCloudDB vs. Weaviate

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NameAlibaba Cloud TSDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMarkLogic  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA stable, reliable, and cost-effective online high-performance time series database serviceEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptOperational and transactional Enterprise NoSQL databaseA cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPPAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Native XML DBMS
RDF store infoas of version 7
Search engine
Relational DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.29
Rank#301  Overall
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score5.18
Rank#63  Overall
#11  Document stores
#1  Native XML DBMS
#1  RDF stores
#7  Search engines
Score0.32
Rank#289  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­hitsdbgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.progress.com/­marklogicwww.openpie.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­time-series-database/­latest/­what-is-tsdbgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdwww.progress.com/­marklogic/­documentationweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAlibabaGoogleMarkLogic Corp.OpenPieWeaviate B.V.
Initial release201420012019
Current release2.1.12, February 201711.0, December 20222.1, January 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial inforestricted free version is availablecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++Go
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforcedyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateNumeric data and Stringsyesyesyesyes 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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyes infoSQL92yesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJava API
Node.js Client API
ODBC
proprietary Optic API infoProprietary Query API, introduced with version 9
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL
WebDAV
XDBC
XQuery
XSLT
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
PL/SQL
Python
R
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infovia XQuery or JavaScriptuser defined functionsno
TriggersnoUsing read-only observersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia Hadoop Connector, HDFS Direct Access and in-database MapReduce jobsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infocan act as a resource manager in an XA/JTA transactionACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infousing MemoryDByes, with Range Indexesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess managed on TSDB instance levelnoRole-based access control at the document and subdocument levelsUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL StandardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
More information provided by the system vendor
Alibaba Cloud TSDBLovefieldMarkLogicPieCloudDBWeaviate
Specific characteristicsPieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesExtreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosPieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersSail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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All 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 modelsPieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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