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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. NSDb vs. WakandaDB vs. Weaviate

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access dataAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelWide column storeTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMSVector DBMS
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#364  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storewww.hawkular.orgnsdb.iowakanda.github.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
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Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorewww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidensdb.io/­Architecturewakanda.github.io/­docweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAlibabaCommunity supported by Red HatWakanda SASWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20162014201720122019
Current release2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 20191.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ScalaC++, JavaScriptGo
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesyes 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoall fields are automatically indexedyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languagenoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIHTTP RESTgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
Java
Scala
JavaScriptJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyesno
Triggersnoyes infovia Hawkular Alertingyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infobased on CassandraShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensnoyesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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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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