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System Properties Comparison Bangdb vs. Drizzle vs. FileMaker vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Weaviate

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NameBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.16
Rank#338  Overall
#47  Document stores
#32  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#246  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitebangdb.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.bangdb.comwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperSachin Sinha, BangDBDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerClaris infoa subsidiary of ApplePerconaWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20122008198320152019
Current releaseBangDB 2.0, October 20217.2.4, September 201219.4.1, November 20213.4.10-2.10, November 20171.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 2Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC, C++C++C++Go
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
iOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyesyesyesyes 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.noyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnono
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL like support with command line toolyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes infovia pluginsnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol using JSONGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Python
C
C++
Java
PHP
PHPActionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesJavaScriptno
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)no infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Source-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, run db with in-memory only modeyes infovia In-Memory Engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)Pluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesAccess rights for users and rolesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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BangdbDrizzleFileMakerPercona Server for MongoDBWeaviate
Specific characteristicsWeaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesFlexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosAs a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersAll companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsAs of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsWeaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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