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System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. WakandaDB vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	14.41
Rank	#37	Overall
	#22	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#360	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.65
Rank	#133	Overall
	#10	Vector DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

wakanda.github.io

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

wakanda.github.io/doc

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Microsoft

Wakanda SAS

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2016

2012

2019

Current release

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

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++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C#
Java
PHP

JavaScript

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

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

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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