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System Properties Comparison Microsoft SQL Server vs. SpatiaLite vs. Weaviate vs. Yaacomo

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Name

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Description

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Spatial extension of SQLite

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

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	824.29
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#143	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Microsoft

Alessandro Furieri

Weaviate B.V.

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

1989

2008

2019

2009

Current release

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

5.0.0, August 2020

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

server-less

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

none

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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