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DBMS > Axibase vs. Datomic vs. GeoSpock vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Datomic vs. GeoSpock vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Weaviate

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NameAxibase  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualizationDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilitySpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
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Score0.35
Rank#282  Overall
#25  Time Series DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websiteaxibase.com/­docs/­atsd/­financewww.datomic.comgeospock.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAxibase CorporationCognitectGeoSpockMicrosoftWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2013201220152019
Current release155851.0.7075, December 20232.0, September 2019V11.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoCommunity Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paidcommercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ClojureJava, JavascriptGo
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMhostedhosted
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoshort, integer, long, float, double, decimal, stringyesyesyesyes 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyestemporal, categoricalyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)noGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIJDBCRESTful HTTP APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Clojure
Java
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoTransaction Functionsnonono
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersAutomatic shardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per tableyes infousing Azure authenticationAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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AxibaseDatomicGeoSpockMicrosoft Azure AI SearchWeaviate
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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