DBMS > Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SQLite vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SQLite vs. SWC-DB vs. Transbase vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

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

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	5.59
Rank	#63	Overall
	#7	Search engines

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

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

www.sqlite.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

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

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Microsoft

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Alex Kashirin

Transaction Software GmbH

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2015

2000

2020

1987

2019

Current release

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

0.5, April 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

GPL V3

commercial

free development license

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

server-less

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

yes

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

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C++

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Source-replica replication

yes

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

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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