DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. ScyllaDB vs. SiriDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. Atos Standard Common Repository vs. ScyllaDB vs. SiriDB vs. Weaviate

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Name

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Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

Highly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networks

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Open Source Time Series DBMS

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Wide column store

Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Key-value store

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Score	17.94
Rank	#34	Overall
	#21	Relational DBMS

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

atos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repository

www.scylladb.com

siridb.com

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.scylladb.com

docs.siridb.com

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

Atos Convergence Creators

ScyllaDB

Cesbit

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2012

2016

2015

2017

2019

Current release

1703

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Open Source

MIT License

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

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Schema and schema-less with LDAP views

schema-free

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

yes

Numeric data

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

cluster global secondary indices

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 DML and DDL statements (CQL)

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

LDAP

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

HTTP API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

All languages with LDAP bindings

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

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

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

cell division

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

informational only, not enforced by the system

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Atomic execution of specific operations

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

in-memory tables

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

LDAP bind authentication

Access rights for users can be defined per object

simple rights management via user accounts

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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