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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. RRDtool vs. Weaviate vs. Yanza

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NameMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score19.93
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
yanza.com
Technical documentationdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperMicrosoftTobias OetikerWeaviate B.V.Yanza
Initial release2016199920192015
Current release1.8.0, 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprisecommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageC++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableGo
Server operating systemshostedHP-UX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interfaceschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy referencesno
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 infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoGraphQL is used as query languageno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
in-process shared library
Pipes
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
PHP
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLnonono
Triggersnononoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding, horizontal partitioningnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyes
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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
no
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Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseRRDtoolWeaviateYanza
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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