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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. GeoMesa vs. Quasardb vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. GeoMesa vs. Quasardb vs. Weaviate

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Distributed, high-performance timeseries databaseAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelWide column storeSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
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Score0.25
Rank#294  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.78
Rank#214  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#332  Overall
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score1.48
Rank#149  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.geomesa.orgquasar.aigithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorewww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­masterweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAlibabaCCRi and othersquasardbWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2016201420092019
Current release5.0.1, July 20243.14.1, January 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageScalaC++Go
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes 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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infowith tagsyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicedepending on storage layerSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicedepending on storage layerSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyeswith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nodepending on storage layeryes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Alibaba Cloud Table StoreGeoMesaQuasardbWeaviate
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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