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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. OrigoDB vs. Weaviate vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Search engine

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Vector DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	5.75
Rank	#58	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#54	Document stores
	#21	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.48
Rank	#149	Overall
	#8	Vector DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#330	Overall
	#45	Document stores

Website

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

origodb.com

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

origodb.com/docs

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Microsoft

Robert Friberg et al

Weaviate B.V.

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2015

2009

under the name LiveDB

2019

Current release

1.19, May 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Clojure

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

GraphQL is used as query language

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

.Net

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Source-replica replication

yes

yes, each node contains all data

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

depending on model

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

Write ahead log

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

using Azure authentication

Role based authorization

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

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