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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Ehcache vs. Faircom EDGE vs. FatDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Ehcache vs. Faircom EDGE vs. FatDB vs. Weaviate

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Vector DBMS
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Score0.24
Rank#310  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score5.23
Rank#68  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.03
Rank#380  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#157  Relational DBMS
Score1.89
Rank#138  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.ehcache.orgwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgegithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorewww.ehcache.org/­documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAlibabaTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGFairCom CorporationFatCloudWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20162009197920122019
Current release3.10.0, March 2022V3, October 20201.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availablecommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaANSI C, C++C#Go
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyes 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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoANSI SQL queriesno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServerGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJCacheADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
JavaC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
C#JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yes infovia applicationsno
Triggersnoyes infoCache Event Listenersyesyes infovia applicationsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoby using Terracotta ServerFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoby using Terracotta Serveryes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infowhen using SQLnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyesyesyes
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 tokensnoFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.no infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Alibaba Cloud Table StoreEhcacheFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGEFatDBWeaviate
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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