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System Properties Comparison Amazon CloudSearch vs. NCache vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Teradata vs. Weaviate

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NameAmazon CloudSearch  Xexclude from comparisonNCache  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA hosted search engine service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloudOpen-Source and Enterprise in-memory Key-Value StoreRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelSearch engineKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Search engine infoUsing distributed Lucene
Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial 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
Score0.96
Rank#195  Overall
#29  Key-value stores
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score44.87
Rank#22  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.alachisoft.com/­ncachewww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.teradata.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­cloudsearchwww.alachisoft.com/­resources/­docshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheredocs.teradata.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAmazonAlachisoftSAP infoformerly SybaseTeradataWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20122005199219842019
Current release5.3.3, April 202417, July 2015Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 20191.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoEnterprise Edition availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC#, .NET, .NET Core, JavaGo
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyespartial infoSupported data types are Lists, Queues, Hashsets, Dictionary and Counteryesyesyes 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.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesyes infoall search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash indexyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query syntax and LINQ for searching the cache. Cache Synchronization with SQL Server using SQL dependency.yesyes infoSQL 2016 + extensionsGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIIDistributedCache
JCache
LINQ
Proprietary native API
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
.Net Core
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono infosupport for stored procedures with SQL-Server CLRyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallelno
Triggersnoyes infoNotificationsyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infoautomatic partitioning across Amazon Search Instance as requiredyesnoneSharding infoHashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infomanaged transparently by AWSyes, with selectable consistency levelSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Strong Eventual Consistency over WAN with Conflict Resolution using Bridge Topology
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanooptimistic locking and pessimistic lockingACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlauthentication via encrypted signaturesAuthentication to access the cache via Active Directory/LDAP (possible roles: user, administrator)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Amazon CloudSearchNCacheSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server AnywhereTeradataWeaviate
Specific characteristicsNCache has been the market leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005 . NCache...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesNCache is 100% .NET/ .NET Core based which fully supports ASP.NET Core Sessions ,...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosNCache enables industries like retail, finance, banking IoT, travel, ecommerce, healthcare...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersBank of America, Citi, Natures Way, Charter Spectrum, Barclays, Henry Schein, GBM,...
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All companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsMarket Leader in .NET Distributed Caching since 2005.
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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 modelsNCache Open Source is free on an as-is basis without any support. NCache Enterprise...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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