DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. HBase vs. Lovefield vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Amazon SimpleDB vs. HBase vs. Lovefield vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

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

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	1.88
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	27.97
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

hbase.apache.org

google.github.io/lovefield

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

hbase.apache.org/book.html

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Amazon

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

Google

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2012

2007

2008

2014

2019

Current release

2.3.4, January 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

restricted

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

does not fully support an SQL-standard

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

JavaScript

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes

Coprocessors in Java

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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