DBMS > Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon Redshift vs. GigaSpaces vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Amazon Redshift vs. GigaSpaces vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

A hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

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 model

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

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Score	1.81
Rank	#137	Overall
	#12	Search engines

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.03
Rank	#188	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#366	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

aws.amazon.com/redshift

www.gigaspaces.com

www.hawkular.org

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/cloudsearch

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Amazon

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Gigaspaces Technologies

Community supported by Red Hat

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2012

2000

2014

2019

Current release

15.5, September 2020

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

all search fields are automatically indexed

restricted

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

HTTP REST

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

automatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as required

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

managed transparently by AWS

yes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentication via encrypted signatures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantages

Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenarios

As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing models

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