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System Properties Comparison Amazon SimpleDB vs. Spark SQL vs. TerminusDB vs. Warp 10 vs. Weaviate

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NameAmazon SimpleDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonWarp 10  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 ScioreSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsTimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBaseAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.88
Rank#133  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#344  Overall
#32  Time Series DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­simpledbspark.apache.org/­sqlterminusdb.comwww.warp10.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.aws.amazon.com/­simpledbspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#www.warp10.io/­content/­02_Getting_startedweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAmazonApache Software FoundationDataChemist Ltd.SenXWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20072014201820152019
Current release3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 202311.0.0, January 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageScalaProlog, RustJavaGo
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes 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.nononono
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 SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (WOQL)noGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Erlang
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Java
Python
R
Scala
JavaScript
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesyes infoWarpScriptno
Triggersnonoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoSharding must be implemented in the applicationyes, utilizing Spark CoreGraph PartitioningSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneJournaling Streamsselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes
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
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBaseEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoConcurrent data updates can be detected by the applicationnoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyesyes
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)noRole-based access controlMandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizationsAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Amazon SimpleDBSpark SQLTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemistWarp 10Weaviate
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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