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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Apache Impala vs. Hyprcubd vs. Splunk vs. Weaviate

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonApache Impala  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreAnalytic DBMS for HadoopServerless Time Series DBMSAnalytics Platform for Big DataAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score12.45
Rank#40  Overall
#24  Relational DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbimpala.apache.orghyprcubd.com (offline)www.splunk.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbimpala.apache.org/­impala-docs.htmldocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by ClouderaHyprcubd, Inc.Splunk Inc.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release2007201320032019
Current release4.1.0, June 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++GoGo
Server operating systemshostedLinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyesyes 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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallyyesnoyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languageno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
gRPC (https)HTTP RESTGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBCC#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenoyesno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnonono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)Access rights for users, groups and roles infobased on Apache Sentry and Kerberostoken accessAccess rights for users and rolesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Amazon SimpleDBApache ImpalaHyprcubdSplunkWeaviate
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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