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System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

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

Graph DBMS

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.00
Rank	#394	Overall
	#42	Graph DBMS

Score	14.19
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	1.58
Rank	#137	Overall
	#10	Vector DBMS

Website

galaxybase.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Microsoft

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2017

2016

2019

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

Strong typed schema

yes

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.

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

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

C#
Java
PHP

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

Transact SQL

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

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

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

Role-based access control

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

Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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