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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. GBase vs. Ignite vs. SQream DB vs. Weaviate

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Apache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score3.11
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbwww.gbase.cnignite.apache.orgsqream.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcesapacheignite.readme.io/­docsdocs.sqream.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Apache Software FoundationSQream TechnologiesWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20192004201520172019
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8cApache Ignite 2.62022.1.6, December 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonC++, Java, .NetC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaGo
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes 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 indexesyesyesyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoStandard with numerous extensionsANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C#C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)user defined functions in Pythonno
Triggersnoyesyes (cache interceptors and events)nono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardinghorizontal and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasyesyes (replicated cache)noneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possibleyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsACIDACIDACIDno
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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesyesSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Amazon DocumentDBGBaseIgniteSQream DBWeaviate
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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