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System Properties Comparison InterSystems Caché vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SQream DB vs. Weaviate

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NameInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  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 serverSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmenta GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engineRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.intersystems.com/­products/­cacheazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchsqream.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.intersystems.comlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.sqream.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperInterSystemsMicrosoftSQream TechnologiesWeaviate B.V.
Initial release1997201520172019
Current release2018.1.4, May 2020V12022.1.6, December 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaGo
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemedepending on used data modelyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes 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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Java
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnouser defined functions in Pythonno
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesyes infousing Azure authenticationAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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InterSystems CachéMicrosoft Azure AI SearchSQream DBWeaviate
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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