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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. Rockset vs. Weaviate

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engine
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Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbwww.postgres-xl.orgrockset.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourceswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.rockset.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperRocksetWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20192014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20192019
Current release10 R1, October 20181.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageCC++Go
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesdynamic typingyes 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.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP RESTGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasyesyes
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 ConsistencyEventual 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 operationsACID infoMVCCnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Amazon DocumentDBPostgres-XLRocksetWeaviate
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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