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System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Spanner vs. Hyprcubd vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. searchxml vs. Weaviate

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NameGoogle Cloud Spanner  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionA horizontally scalable, globally consistent, relational database service. It is the externalization of the core Google database that runs the biggest aspects of Google, like Ads and Google Play.Serverless Time Series DBMSSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.89
Rank#103  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#25  Search engines
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­spannerhyprcubd.com (offline)azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productsgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­spanner/­docslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperGoogleHyprcubd, Inc.Microsoftinformationpartners gmbhWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2017201520152019
Current releaseV11.01.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesnono
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Implementation languageGoC++Go
Server operating systemshostedhostedhostedWindows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyesyesyes 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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoQuery statements complying to ANSI 2011SQL-like query languagenonoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
JDBC infoAt present, JDBC supports read-only queries. No support for DDL or DML statements.
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC (https)RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes infoon the application serverno
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication with 3 replicas for regional instances.yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoby using interleaved tables, this features focuses more on performance improvements than on referential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoStrict serializable isolationnonomultiple readers, single writerno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)token accessyes infousing Azure authenticationDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Google Cloud SpannerHyprcubdMicrosoft Azure AI SearchsearchxmlWeaviate
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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