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System Properties Comparison Amazon DynamoDB vs. AnzoGraph DB vs. Faircom DB vs. Vertica vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

Hosted, scalable database service by Amazon with the data stored in Amazons cloud

Scalable graph database built for online analytics and data harmonization with MPP scaling, high-performance analytical algorithms and reasoning, and virtualization

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Column oriented

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	77.57
Rank	#16	Overall
	#2	Document stores
	#2	Key-value stores

Score	0.27
Rank	#302	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	0.24
Rank	#311	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores
	#140	Relational DBMS

Score	11.40
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	1.89
Rank	#138	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

www.vertica.com

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/dynamodb

docs.cambridgesemantics.com/anzograph/userdoc/home.htm

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

vertica.com/documentation

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Amazon

Cambridge Semantics

FairCom Corporation

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2012

2018

1979

2005

2019

Current release

2.3, January 2021

V12, November 2020

12.0.3, January 2023

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free tier for a limited amount of database operations

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

ANSI C, C++

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

Schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SPARQL and SPARQL* as primary query language. Cypher preview.

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Apache Mule
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka
OData access for BI tools
OpenCypher
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
ColdFusion
Erlang
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Triggers

yes

by integration with AWS Lambda

yes

yes, called Custom Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Automatic sharding

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication in MPP-Cluster

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

may be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)

Kerberos/HDFS data loading

Bi-directional Spark integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency in MPP-Cluster

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

not needed in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

ACID across one or more tables within a single AWS account and region

ACID

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

Access rights for users and roles

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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