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System Properties Comparison 4D vs. ArcadeDB vs. Faircom EDGE vs. SiteWhere vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

Application development environment with integrated database management system

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

FairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environments

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

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Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	2.47
Rank	#110	Overall
	#54	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#358	Overall
	#48	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#52	Key-value stores
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.09
Rank	#362	Overall
	#53	Key-value stores
	#155	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#383	Overall
	#43	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

www.4d.com

arcadedb.com

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-edge

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

developer.4d.com

docs.arcadedb.com

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.html

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

4D, Inc

Arcade Data

FairCom Corporation

SiteWhere

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

1984

2021

1979

2010

2019

Current release

v20, April 2023

September 2021

V3, October 2020

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Restricted, free version available

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

Java

Server operating systems

OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Android
Linux

ARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

predefined scheme

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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.

yes

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

close to SQL 92

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

ANSI SQL queries

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

by using 4D Mobile
SOAP webservices

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

4D proprietary IDE
PHP

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

File partitioning

Customizable business rules for partitioning

Sharding

based on HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication

yes

Synchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logs

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

when using SQL

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

across SQL and NoSQL

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

Users and groups

Fine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantages

Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenarios

As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing models

Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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