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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. KairosDB vs. Transwarp Hippo vs. Weaviate

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  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 ScioreDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasetsAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSVector DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.89
Rank#128  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score0.60
Rank#238  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#16  Vector DBMS
Score1.48
Rank#149  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbkairosdb.github.ioweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAmazonWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2007201320232019
Current release1.2.2, November 20181.0, May 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Go
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesVector, Numeric and Stringyes 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 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 APIGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
RESTful HTTP APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationSharding infobased on CassandraShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be specified for read operations
Eventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate 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 applicationnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)simple password-based access controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Amazon SimpleDBKairosDBTranswarp HippoWeaviate
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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