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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. GreptimeDB vs. Infobright vs. Weaviate

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudAn open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiencyHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.81
Rank#137  Overall
#12  Search engines
Score0.12
Rank#351  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchgreptime.comignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchdocs.greptime.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAmazonGreptime Inc.Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release2012202220052019
Current release1.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageRustCGo
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIgRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPythonnono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesSimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
More information provided by the system vendor
Amazon CloudSearchGreptimeDBInfobrightWeaviate
Specific characteristicsGreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantages- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosFor IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersGreptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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All companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsGreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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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 modelsGreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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