DBMS > Bangdb vs. Hyprcubd vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Hyprcubd vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Weaviate

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Serverless Time Series DBMS

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

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

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

Primary database model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	20.56
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

hyprcubd.com (offline)

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

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

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

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Microsoft

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2012

2015

2016

2019

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

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, C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

SQL-like query language

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

gRPC (https)

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

C#
Java
PHP

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

token access

yes

using Azure authentication

yes

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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