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System Properties Comparison AgensGraph vs. Alibaba Cloud Log Service vs. Microsoft Azure Data Explorer vs. Weaviate

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NameAgensGraph  Xexclude from comparisonAlibaba Cloud Log Service  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Data Explorer  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionMulti-model database supporting relational and graph data models and built upon PostgreSQLA complete real-time data logging service that supports collection, consumption, shipping, search, and analysis of logs.Fully managed big data interactive analytics platformAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMS infocolumn orientedVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store infoIf a column is of type dynamic docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-types/­dynamic then it's possible to add arbitrary JSON documents in this cell
Event Store infothis is the general usage pattern at Microsoft. Billing, Logs, Telemetry events are stored in ADX and the state of an individual entity is defined by the arg_max(timestamps)
Spatial DBMS
Search engine infosupport for complex search expressions docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­parseoperator FTS, Geospatial docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­geo-point-to-geohash-function distributed search -> ADX acts as a distributed search engine
Time Series DBMS infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorer/­time-series-analysis
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.23
Rank#315  Overall
#26  Graph DBMS
#140  Relational DBMS
Score0.47
Rank#263  Overall
#18  Search engines
Score3.80
Rank#81  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitebitnine.net/­agensgraphwww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­log-serviceazure.microsoft.com/­services/­data-explorergithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationbitnine.net/­documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­slsdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­data-explorerweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperBitnine Global Inc.AlibabaCloud Inc.MicrosoftWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2016201620192019
Current release2.1, December 2018cloud service with continuous releases1.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesno
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Implementation languageCGo
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedhosted
Data schemedepending on used data modelschema-freeFixed schema with schema-less datatypes (dynamic)yes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infobool, datetime, dynamic, guid, int, long, real, string, timespan, double: docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­query/­scalar-data-typesyes 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 indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL for queryingKusto Query Language (KQL), SQL subsetGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsCypher Query Language
JDBC
HTTP RESTMicrosoft SQL Server communication protocol (MS-TDS)
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PowerShell
Python
R
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoYes, possible languages: KQL, Python, Rno
Triggersnoyesyes infosee docs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­kusto/­management/­updatepolicyno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesno, but can be realized using table inheritanceShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication3 replicasyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop ConnectorSpark connector (open source): github.com/­Azure/­azure-kusto-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
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.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAlibaba Cloud user access controlAzure Active Directory AuthenticationAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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AgensGraphAlibaba Cloud Log ServiceMicrosoft Azure Data ExplorerWeaviate
Specific characteristicsA real-time service for telementry data (log, metric, trace). Alibaba Cloud Log Service...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantages* Ease of use: Completes data collections from more than 30 data sources within five...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenarios* Log/Trace/Event Search & Analysis * Application Monitoring * Operation Analysis...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customers* Alibaba & Ant-Finance:he infrastructure service for the Corp * Over 22k Subscriber...
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All 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 modelsPay-As-You-Go https://www.alibabacloud.com/product/log-service/pricing
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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