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DBMS > Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SpaceTime vs. Transbase vs. Transwarp ArgoDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. SpaceTime vs. Transbase vs. Transwarp ArgoDB vs. Weaviate

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NameMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp ArgoDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSDistributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architectureAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelSearch engineSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
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Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#348  Overall
#151  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.mireo.com/­spacetimewww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmlwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodbgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmldocs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODBweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperMicrosoftMireoTransaction Software GmbHTranswarpWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2015202019872019
Current releaseV1Transbase 8.3, 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infofree development licensecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C and C++Go
Server operating systemshostedLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes 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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedyesyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C#
C++
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceFixed-grid hypercubesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceReal-time block device replication (DRBD)Source-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Microsoft Azure AI SearchSpaceTimeTransbaseTranswarp ArgoDBWeaviate
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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