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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Weaviate vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Weaviate vs. XTDB

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessCloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelWide column storeDocument storeWide column storeVector DBMSDocument store
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score7.36
Rank#53  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storefirebase.google.com/­products/­firestoreazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tablesgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
github.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorefirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoreweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviatewww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaGoogleMicrosoftWeaviate B.V.Juxt Ltd.
Initial release20162017201220192019
Current release1.19, May 20231.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate EnterpriseOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesnono
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Implementation languageGoClojure
Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interfaceschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy referencesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 indexesnoyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoGraphQL is used as query languagelimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIAndroid
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsnonono
Triggersnoyes, with Cloud Functionsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replicationyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.yesyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoUsing Cloud Dataflownonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsyesoptimistic lockingnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Alibaba Cloud Table StoreGoogle Cloud FirestoreMicrosoft Azure Table StorageWeaviateXTDB infoformerly named Crux
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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