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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Quasardb vs. SiteWhere vs. SQL.JS vs. Weaviate

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series dataPort of SQLite to JavaScriptAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelSearch engineTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchquasar.aigithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewheresql.js.orggithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdoc.quasar.ai/­mastersitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.htmlsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperMicrosoftquasardbSiteWhereAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20152009201020122019
Current releaseV13.14.1, January 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0Open SourceOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++JavaJavaScriptGo
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freepredefined schemeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infointeger and binaryyesyesyes 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infowith tagsnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIHTTP RESTJavaScript APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
JavaScriptJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infobased on HBasenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modenoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
More information provided by the system vendor
Microsoft Azure AI SearchQuasardbSiteWhereSQL.JSWeaviate
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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