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System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud AnalyticDB for MySQL vs. Microsoft SQL Server vs. Warp 10 vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

A real-time data warehousing service that can process petabytes of data with high concurrency and low latency. It is fully compatible with the MySQL protocol.

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.91
Rank	#201	Overall
	#94	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#344	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/analyticdb-for-mysql

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.warp10.io

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/doc-detail/93776.htm

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Alibaba

Microsoft

SenX

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

1989

2015

2019

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenarios

As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing models

Available regions: America US Virginia US Silicon Valley Asia China Hong Kong India...
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