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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. AntDB vs. CouchDB vs. Weaviate vs. YugabyteDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAntDB  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessA scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with OracleA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSDocument storeVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionDocument store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.25
Rank#303  Overall
#137  Relational DBMS
Score9.30
Rank#45  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score2.91
Rank#102  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.asiainfo.com/­en_us/­product_aisware_antdb_detail.htmlcouchdb.apache.orggithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
www.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stableweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviatedocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebook
DeveloperAlibabaAsiaInfo Technologies LimitedApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerWeaviate B.V.Yugabyte Inc.
Initial release2016200520192017
Current release3.3.3, December 20231.19, May 20232.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate EnterpriseOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageErlangGoC and C++
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interfacedepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy referencesyes
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 indexesnoyesyes infovia viewsyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL2016 compliantnoGraphQL is used as query languageyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptnoyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0ShardingHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDno infoatomic operations within a single document possiblenoDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
yes
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Alibaba Cloud Table StoreAntDBCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"WeaviateYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsAntDB was initiated in 2008. On the core system of operators, AntDB provides online...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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YugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesHTAP mixed load: AntDB is a universal, enterprise-level distributed relational database,...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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PostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosAs the core software of large enterprise, AntDB supports multi-scenario deployment....
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Systems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Key customersChina Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Aeon Life, China Mobile Tietong, CITIC...
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All companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsMore than 1 billion subscribers in 24 provinces across China are served by AntDB...
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As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsCertificates and licenses CMMI5 Certificate licensed by CMMI Institute IT Product...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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Apache 2.0 license for the database
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