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System Properties Comparison Apache Phoenix vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. MySQL vs. Warp 10 vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

A scale-out RDBMS with evolutionary schema built on Apache HBase

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Widely used open source RDBMS

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

Search engine

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.90
Rank	#125	Overall
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	5.75
Rank	#58	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#351	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.48
Rank	#149	Overall
	#8	Vector DBMS

Website

phoenix.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.mysql.com

www.warp10.io

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

phoenix.apache.org

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Microsoft

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

SenX

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2014

2015

1995

2015

2019

Current release

5.0-HBase2, July 2018 and 4.15-HBase1, December 2019

9.0.0, July 2024

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are 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

Java

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Unix
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

late-bound, schema-on-read capabilities

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

with proprietary extensions

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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 Control Lists (using HBase ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC, multi-tenancy

yes

using Azure authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantages

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

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