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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Realm vs. Weaviate

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.73
Rank#142  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitebasex.orgazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsrealm.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsrealm.io/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperBaseX GmbHMicrosoftRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Weaviate B.V.
Initial release2007201620142019
Current release10.7, August 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
hostedAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesyes 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
C#
Java
PHP
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesTransact SQLno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryno
Triggersyes infovia eventsnoyes infoChange Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding, horizontal partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoIn-Memory realmyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsyesyesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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BaseXMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseRealmWeaviate
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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