DBMS > GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RocksDB vs. Warp 10 vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RocksDB vs. Warp 10 vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

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

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Trend Chart

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.14
Rank	#344	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

www.geomesa.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

rocksdb.org

www.warp10.io

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

CCRi and others

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

SenX

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2014

2016

2013

2015

2019

Current release

5.0.0, May 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

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

Scala

C++

Java

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

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.

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

depending on storage layer

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

depending on storage layer

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

yes

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.

depending on storage layer

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

yes

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

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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