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DBMS > Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Qdrant vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Qdrant vs. Weaviate

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelSearch engineVector DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.28
Rank#61  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score2.28
Rank#106  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Score1.95
Rank#115  Overall
#10  Vector DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchgithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
github.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchqdrant.tech/­documentationweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperMicrosoftQdrantWeaviate B.V.
Initial release201520212019
Current releaseV11.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageRustGo
Server operating systemshostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIgRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceCollection-level replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency, tunable consistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationKey-based authenticationAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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