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

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

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  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 accessFairCom 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.Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.24
Rank#310  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.03
Rank#380  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#157  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#374  Overall
#38  Time Series DBMS
Score1.89
Rank#138  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgewww.hawkular.orggithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guideweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAlibabaFairCom CorporationFatCloudCommunity supported by Red HatWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20161979201220142019
Current releaseV3, October 20201.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++C#JavaGo
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
WindowsLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyesyes 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 indexesnoyesyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoANSI SQL queriesno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServernoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.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
HTTP RESTGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
C#Go
Java
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yes infovia applicationsnono
Triggersnoyesyes infovia applicationsyes infovia Hawkular Alertingno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infowhen using SQLnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyesyes
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.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.no infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Alibaba Cloud Table StoreFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGEFatDBHawkular MetricsWeaviate
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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