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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. HBase vs. Memcached vs. Weaviate

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud. infoThere is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward ScioreWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelKey-value storeWide column storeKey-value storeVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.85
Rank#138  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbhbase.apache.orgwww.memcached.orggithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAmazonApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2007200820032019
Current release2.3.4, January 20211.6.25, March 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaCGo
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possibleschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenooptions to bring your own types, AVROnoyes 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.nono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll columns are indexed automaticallynonoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
Proprietary protocolGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in Javanono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Immediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)nono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess 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 & ABACyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Amazon SimpleDBHBaseMemcachedWeaviate
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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