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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. TDSQL for MySQL vs. Weaviate

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonTDSQL for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA high-performance distributed database management system with features such as automatic sharding, intelligent operation and maintenance, elastic scalability without downtime, and enterprise-grade security. It is highly compatible with MySQL.An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.91
Rank#132  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.85
Rank#205  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.tencentcloud.com/­products/­dcdbgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcescloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.tencentcloud.com/­document/­product/­1042weaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014TencentWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2019201020132019
Current release1.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesno
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Implementation languageErlangGo
Server operating systemshostedhostedhosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes 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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyesno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)yesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
More information provided by the system vendor
Amazon DocumentDBIBM CloudantTDSQL for MySQLWeaviate
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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