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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. GridDB vs. Heroic vs. Typesense vs. Weaviate

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonTypesense  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessScalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivityAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelWide column storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.76
Rank#219  Overall
#14  Search engines
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storegriddb.netgithub.com/­spotify/­heroictypesense.orggithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.griddb.netspotify.github.io/­heroictypesense.org/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAlibabaToshiba CorporationSpotifyWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20162013201420152019
Current release5.1, August 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++Go
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free infopre-defined schema optionalyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyesyesyes 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 infovia Elasticsearchyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)nonoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net infocommunity maintained
Clojure infocommunity maintained
Dart infocommunity maintained
Go infocommunity maintained
Java infocommunity maintained
JavaScript
Perl infocommunity maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust infocommunity maintained
Swift infocommunity maintained
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonononono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationyesMulti-source replication using RAFTyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACID at container levelnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Alibaba Cloud Table StoreGridDBHeroicTypesenseWeaviate
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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All companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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