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

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  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 accessThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.Enterprise-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 storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.databricks.comwww.esgyn.cnwww.firebirdsql.orggithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.databricks.comwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAlibabaDatabricksEsgynFirebird FoundationWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2016201320152000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2019
Current release5.0.0, January 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaC and C++Go
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes 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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnowith Databricks SQLyesyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
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
Python
R
Scala
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 proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregatesJava Stored ProceduresPSQLno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDACIDACIDno
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.nononoyes
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 StoreDatabricksEsgynDBFirebirdWeaviate
Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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Weaviate 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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