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DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. Apache Druid vs. Graph Engine vs. SwayDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Apache Druid vs. Graph Engine vs. SwayDB vs. Weaviate

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Druid  Xexclude from comparisonGraph Engine infoformer name: Trinity  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceOpen-source analytics data store designed for sub-second OLAP queries on high dimensionality and high cardinality dataA distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engineAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Key-value storeVector DBMS
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Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score3.25
Rank#90  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#232  Overall
#21  Graph DBMS
#34  Key-value stores
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbdruid.apache.orgwww.graphengine.ioswaydb.simer.augithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesdruid.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­designwww.graphengine.io/­docs/­manualweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsMicrosoftSimer PlahaWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20192012201020182019
Current release29.0.1, April 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache license v2Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJava.NET and CScalaGo
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
.NET
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoschema-less columns are supportedyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL for queryingnonoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Clojure
JavaScript
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic
Java
Kotlin
Scala
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesnono
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infomanual/auto, time-basedhorizontal partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasyes, via HDFS, S3 or other storage enginesnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsnonoAtomic execution of operationsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesoptional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storageyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesRBAC using LDAP or Druid internals for users and groups for read/write by datasource and systemnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Amazon DocumentDBApache DruidGraph Engine infoformer name: TrinitySwayDBWeaviate
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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