DB-EnginesInfluxDB: Focus on building software with an easy-to-use serverless, scalable time series platformEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Faircom EDGE vs. FatDB vs. mSQL vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Faircom EDGE vs. FatDB vs. mSQL vs. Weaviate

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#368  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
#156  Relational DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgehughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffFairCom CorporationFatCloudHughes TechnologiesWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20141979201219942019
Current releaseV3, October 20204.4, October 20211.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialcommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageJavaScriptANSI C, C++C#CGo
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Android
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
WindowsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyesyes 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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes infoANSI SQL queriesno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServerA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
C#C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++yes infovia applicationsnono
Triggersyesyesyes infovia applicationsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsselectable replication factornoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
noneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infowhen using SQLnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.no infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
More information provided by the system vendor
AlaSQLFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGEFatDBmSQL infoMini SQLWeaviate
Specific characteristicsWeaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
» more
Competitive advantagesFlexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
» more
Typical application scenariosAs a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
» more
Key customersAll companies that have data. ​
» more
Market metricsAs of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
» more
Licensing and pricing modelsWeaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
» more

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
AlaSQLFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGEFatDBmSQL infoMini SQLWeaviate
DB-Engines blog posts

Weaviate, an ANN Database with CRUD support
2 February 2021,  Etienne Dilocker, SeMI Technologies (sponsor) 

show all

Recent citations in the news

Create a Marvel Database with SQL and Javascript, the easy way
2 July 2019, Towards Data Science

HarperDB - How and Why We Built It From The Ground Up on NodeJS
28 February 2021, hackernoon.com

Multi faceted data exploration in the browser using Leaflet and amCharts
3 May 2020, Towards Data Science

provided by Google News

Innovative Software and Giant Lego Sets, Why FairCom Edge Booth is a Must-Visit at Automate
9 May 2024, MVPro

FairCom kicks off new era of database technology USA - English
10 November 2020, PR Newswire

Brokers, Protocols, Platform Move Manufacturing Data
26 July 2023, EE Times

World's First Converged IIoT Hub to be Showcased at IoT Tech Expo
3 September 2021, Automation.com

Winners of the 2021 IoT Evolution Product of the Year Awards Announced
6 July 2021, IoT Evolution World

provided by Google News

Higher Education PS rules out ghost students before PAC
29 November 2018, diggers.news

provided by Google News

Build enterprise-ready generative AI solutions with Cohere foundation models in Amazon Bedrock and Weaviate vector ...
24 January 2024, AWS Blog

Foley Represents Cortical Ventures in $50M Series B Round for Weaviate
17 December 2023, Foley & Lardner LLP

Weaviate Strengthens Partnership with AWS to Make it Easier for Developers to Build Generative AI Applications
16 November 2023, Datanami

Getting Started with Weaviate: A Beginner's Guide to Search with Vector Databases
18 July 2023, Towards Data Science

Weaviate Raises $50 Million Series B Funding to Meet Soaring Demand for AI Native Vector Database Technology ...
21 April 2023, PR Newswire

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

SingleStore logo

Build AI apps with Vectors on SQL and JSON with milliseconds response times.
Try it today.

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

RaimaDB logo

RaimaDB, embedded database for mission-critical applications. When performance, footprint and reliability matters.
Try RaimaDB for free.

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Present your product here