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DBMS > Amazon DocumentDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SQream DB vs. Weaviate vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Amazon DocumentDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SQream DB vs. Weaviate vs. Yaacomo

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NameAmazon DocumentDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionFast, scalable, highly available, and fully managed MongoDB-compatible database serviceSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmenta GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelDocument storeSearch engineRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score1.91
Rank#131  Overall
#24  Document stores
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websiteaws.amazon.com/­documentdbazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchsqream.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
yaacomo.com
Technical documentationaws.amazon.com/­documentdb/­resourceslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.sqream.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperMicrosoftSQream TechnologiesWeaviate B.V.Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release20192015201720192009
Current releaseV12022.1.6, December 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprisecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnonono
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Implementation languageC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaGo
Server operating systemshostedhostedLinuxAndroid
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interfaceyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy referencesyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesGraphQL is used as query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsproprietary protocol using JSON (MongoDB compatible)RESTful HTTP API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functions in Pythonno
Triggersnonononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal and vertical partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-availability zones for high availability, asynchronous replication for up to 15 read replicasyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsno infomay be implemented via Amazon Elastic MapReduce (Amazon EMR)nononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
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 rolesyes infousing Azure authenticationAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Amazon DocumentDBMicrosoft Azure AI SearchSQream DBWeaviateYaacomo
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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