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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Axibase vs. EsgynDB vs. Firebird vs. Weaviate

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelWide column storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
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Score0.25
Rank#294  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.21
Rank#308  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score0.15
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Score19.46
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.48
Rank#149  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.esgyn.cnwww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorewww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAlibabaAxibase CorporationEsgynFirebird FoundationWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2016201320152000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2019
Current release155855.0.1, August 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, JavaC and C++Go
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesyes 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 indexesnonoyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyesyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesJava Stored ProceduresPSQLno
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication between multi datacentersSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Alibaba Cloud Table StoreAxibaseEsgynDBFirebirdWeaviate
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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