DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. atoti vs. Coveo vs. SpaceTime vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. atoti vs. Coveo vs. SpaceTime vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

Large scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence tools

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

AI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code development

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	16.88
Rank	#35	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#243	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.11
Rank	#118	Overall
	#11	Search engines

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/redshift

atoti.io

www.coveo.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/redshift

docs.atoti.io

docs.coveo.com

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Amazon (based on PostgreSQL)

ActiveViam

Coveo

Mireo

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2012

2020

2019

Current release

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

commercial

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

hybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configuration

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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 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

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C#
C++
Python

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in Python

Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

yes

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate 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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

granular access controls, API key management, content filters

yes

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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