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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. atoti vs. Drizzle vs. LeanXcale vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. atoti vs. Drizzle vs. LeanXcale vs. Weaviate

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonatoti  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessAn in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelWide column storeObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score0.61
Rank#243  Overall
#10  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.36
Rank#280  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
#129  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storeatoti.iowww.leanxcale.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.atoti.ioweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAlibabaActiveViamDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerLeanXcaleWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2016200820152019
Current release7.2.4, September 20121.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infofree versions availableOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Go
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes 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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoMultidimensional Expressions (MDX)yes infowith proprietary extensionsyes infothrough Apache DerbyGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBCJDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C++
Java
PHP
C
Java
Scala
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPythonnono
Triggersnono infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.no
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Alibaba Cloud Table StoreatotiDrizzleLeanXcaleWeaviate
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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