DBMS > Bangdb vs. FileMaker vs. OpenSearch vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Weaviate

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

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Name

Description

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

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 model

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

bangdb.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

docs.bangdb.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Amazon Web Services

Percona

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2012

1983

2021

2015

2019

Current release

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

19.4.1, November 2021

2.5.0, January 2023

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

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

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

proprietary protocol using JSON

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

PHP

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Actionscript
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

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual 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, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

Access rights for users and roles

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Distributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenarios

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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

The OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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