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DBMS > InterSystems Caché vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Warp 10 vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. Kinetica vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Warp 10 vs. Weaviate

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NameInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonWarp 10  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA multi-model DBMS and application serverFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentTimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBaseAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.07
Rank#349  Overall
#32  Time Series DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachewww.kinetica.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.warp10.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.comdocs.kinetica.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.warp10.io/­content/­02_Getting_startedweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperInterSystemsKineticaMicrosoftSenXWeaviate B.V.
Initial release19972012201520152019
Current release2018.1.4, May 20207.1, August 2021V11.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageC, C++JavaGo
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes 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.yesnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnonoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsnoyes infoWarpScriptno
Triggersyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infobased on HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.yesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users and roles on table levelyes infousing Azure authenticationMandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizationsAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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InterSystems CachéKineticaMicrosoft Azure AI SearchWarp 10Weaviate
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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