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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Derby vs. Google Cloud Datastore vs. Weaviate vs. Yaacomo

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Automatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeVector DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score4.60
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score4.36
Rank#72  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbdb.apache.org/­derbycloud.google.com/­datastoregithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
yaacomo.com
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperApache Software FoundationGoogleWeaviate B.V.Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release20191997200820192009
Current release10.17.1.0, November 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprisecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaGo
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VMhostedAndroid
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interfaceyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, details hereyes 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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (GQL)GraphQL is used as query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)JDBCgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Java.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Proceduresusing Google App Engineno
TriggersnoyesCallbacks using the Google Apps Enginenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication using PaxosyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)noyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possibleyesyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsACIDACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsnoACID
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.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Amazon DocumentDBDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDBGoogle Cloud DatastoreWeaviateYaacomo
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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