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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. EsgynDB vs. NSDb vs. VictoriaMetrics vs. Weaviate

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solutionAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score1.32
Rank#162  Overall
#14  Time Series DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.esgyn.cnnsdb.iovictoriametrics.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchnsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
weaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAmazonEsgynVictoriaMetricsWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20122015201720182019
Current releasev1.91, May 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++, JavaJava, ScalaGoGo
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes 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 indexedyesall fields are automatically indexedyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languagenoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetJava
Scala
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Proceduresnonono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSMulti-source replication between multi datacentersSynchronous replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonono
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Amazon CloudSearchEsgynDBNSDbVictoriaMetricsWeaviate
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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