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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. Datomic vs. Machbase Neo vs. Vertica vs. Weaviate

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infoColumn orientedVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score10.06
Rank#42  Overall
#26  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.datomic.commachbase.comwww.vertica.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.datomic.commachbase.com/­dbmsvertica.com/­documentationweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAmazonCognitectMachbaseOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett PackardWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20122012201320052019
Current release1.0.7075, December 2023V8.0, August 202312.0.3, January 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freecommercial infofree test version availablecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containersno
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureCC++Go
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.yes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes 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 indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.yes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query languageFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.GraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction Functionsnoyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differencesno
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsnoyes, called Custom Alertsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requirednone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersShardinghorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersselectable replication factorMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infoBi-directional Spark integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)noyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes infovolatile and lookup tablenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesnosimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hashAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Amazon CloudSearchDatomicMachbase Neo infoFormer name was InfinifluxVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™Weaviate
Specific characteristicsDeploy-anywhere database for large-scale analytical deployments. Deploy off-cloud,...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesFast, scalable, and capable of high concurrency. Separation of compute/storage leverages...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosCommunication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersAbiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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All 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 modelsCost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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