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DBMS > Amazon Redshift vs. VictoriaMetrics vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Amazon Redshift vs. VictoriaMetrics vs. Weaviate

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NameAmazon Redshift  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLarge scale data warehouse service for use with business intelligence toolsA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solutionAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score14.70
Rank#36  Overall
#22  Relational DBMS
Score1.55
Rank#140  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#115  Overall
#10  Vector DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­redshiftvictoriametrics.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­redshiftdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
weaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAmazon (based on PostgreSQL)VictoriaMetricsWeaviate B.V.
Initial release201220182019
Current releasev1.91, May 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCGoGo
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes 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.nonono
Secondary indexesrestrictedyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infodoes not fully support an SQL-standardnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBCJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions infoin Pythonnono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSynchronous replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoinformational only, not enforced by the systemnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
More information provided by the system vendor
Amazon RedshiftVictoriaMetricsWeaviate
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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