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

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonStardog  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentEnterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualizationA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMSAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelSearch engineGraph DBMS
RDF store
Wide column storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score2.07
Rank#122  Overall
#11  Graph DBMS
#6  RDF stores
Score0.08
Rank#364  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.stardog.comgithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
github.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.stardog.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperMicrosoftStardog-UnionAlex KashirinWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2015201020202019
Current releaseV17.3.0, May 20200.5, April 20211.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial info60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/studentsOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Go
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema supportschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes 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.nono infoImport/export of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesyes infosupports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatialyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoYes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL ServerSQL-like query languageGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIGraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3
Proprietary protocol
Thrift
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C++JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Javanono
Triggersnoyes infovia event handlersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceMulti-source replication in HA-Clusteryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in HA-ClusterImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes inforelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno
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.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationAccess rights for users and rolesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Microsoft Azure AI SearchStardogSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column DatabaseWeaviate
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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