DBMS > Amazon SimpleDB vs. atoti vs. Kdb vs. SQLite vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. atoti vs. Kdb vs. SQLite vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

Hosted simple database service by Amazon, with the data stored in the Amazon Cloud.

There is an unrelated product called SimpleDB developed by Edward Sciore

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

High performance Time Series DBMS

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.88
Rank	#133	Overall
	#23	Key-value stores

Score	0.61
Rank	#243	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	7.71
Rank	#49	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS
	#1	Vector DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

aws.amazon.com/simpledb

atoti.io

kx.com

www.sqlite.org

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

docs.aws.amazon.com/simpledb

docs.atoti.io

code.kx.com

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Amazon

ActiveViam

Kx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plc

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2007

2000

kdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 2003

2000

2019

Current release

3.6, May 2018

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free versions available

commercial

free 32-bit version

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All columns are indexed automatically

yes

table attribute 'grouped'

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

SQL-like query language (q)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

with views

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding must be implemented in the application

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

similar paradigm used for internal processing

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be specified for read operations

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Concurrent data updates can be detected by the application

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

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

Access rights for users and roles can be defined via the AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM)

rights management via user accounts

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantages

provides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenarios

tick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customers

Goldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

kdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing models

upon request
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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