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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Datomic vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Datomic vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Weaviate

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSDocument storeSearch engineVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.datomic.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaseazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.datomic.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databaselearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAlibabaCognitectGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014MicrosoftWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20162012201220152019
Current release1.0.6735, June 2023V11.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesyesno
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureGo
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMhostedhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Clojure
Java
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction Functionslimited functionality with using 'rules'nono
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsCallbacks are triggered when data changesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDyesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesyes infousing Azure authenticationAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Alibaba Cloud Table StoreDatomicFirebase Realtime DatabaseMicrosoft Azure AI SearchWeaviate
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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