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DBMS > Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Firebird vs. GBase vs. GridDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Atos Standard Common Repository vs. Firebird vs. GBase vs. GridDB vs. Weaviate

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NameAtos Standard Common Repository  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGridDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
This system has been discontinued and will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionHighly scalable database system, designed for managing session and subscriber data in modern mobile communication networksFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Scalable in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and Big DataAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score2.09
Rank#120  Overall
#10  Time Series DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websiteatos.net/en/convergence-creators/portfolio/standard-common-repositorywww.firebirdsql.orgwww.gbase.cngriddb.netgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.griddb.netweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperAtos Convergence CreatorsFirebird FoundationGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Toshiba CorporationWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20162000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase200420132019
Current release17035.0.0, January 2024GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c5.1, August 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3 and Apache License, version 2.0 , commercial license (standard and advanced editions) also availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C, Java, PythonC++Go
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeSchema and schema-less with LDAP viewsyesyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptionalyesyesyes infonumerical, string, blob, geometry, boolean, timestampyes 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.yesyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesStandard with numerous extensionsSQL92, SQL-like TQL (Toshiba Query Language)GraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsLDAPADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesAll languages with LDAP bindingsC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infocell divisionnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSource-replica replicationyesSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoConnector for using GridDB as an input source and output destination for Hadoop MapReduce jobsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency within container, eventual consistency across containersEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of specific operationsACIDACIDACID at container levelno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlLDAP bind authenticationUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Atos Standard Common RepositoryFirebirdGBaseGridDBWeaviate
Specific characteristicsGridDB is a highly scalable, in-memory time series database optimized for IoT and...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantages1. Optimized for IoT Equipped with Toshiba's proprietary key-container data model...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosFactory IoT, Automative Industry, Energy, BEMS, Smart Community, Monitoring system.
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersDenso International [see use case ] An Electric Power company [see use case ] Ishinomaki...
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All companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsGitHub trending repository
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As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen Source license (AGPL v3 & Apache v2) Commercial license (subscription)
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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