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System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. SQL.JS vs. TerarkDB vs. Weaviate

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database servicePort of SQLite to JavaScriptA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeVector DBMS
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Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbsql.js.orggithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourcessql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmlbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKcweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersByteDance, originally TerarkWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2019201220162019
Current release1.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Sourcecommercial inforestricted open source version availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++Go
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes 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 indexesyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportednoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)JavaScript APIC++ API
Java API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
JavaScriptC++
Java
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasnonenoneyes
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 ConsistencynoneEventual 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 operationsACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnonoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Amazon DocumentDBSQL.JSTerarkDBWeaviate
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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