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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Cubrid vs. Sphinx vs. Weaviate vs. YTsaurus

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparisonYTsaurus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceCUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTPOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSSearch engineVector DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.91
Rank#124  Overall
#22  Document stores
Score0.97
Rank#189  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score1.48
Rank#149  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Score0.15
Rank#323  Overall
#44  Document stores
#47  Key-value stores
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbcubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
sphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
ytsaurus.tech
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcescubrid.org/­manualssphinxsearch.com/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviateytsaurus.tech/­docs/­en
DeveloperCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationSphinx Technologies Inc.Weaviate B.V.Yandex
Initial release20192008200120192023
Current release11.0, January 20213.5.1, February 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate EnterpriseOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC, C++, JavaC++GoC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Ubuntu
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy referencesyes
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 indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)GraphQL is used as query languageYQL, an SQL-based language, is supported
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocolGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Proceduresnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasSource-replica replicationnoneyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possibleyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
Access Control Lists
More information provided by the system vendor
Amazon DocumentDBCubridSphinxWeaviateYTsaurus
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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