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DBMS > BigchainDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoMesa vs. KairosDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoMesa vs. KairosDB vs. Weaviate

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument storeDocument storeSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.85
Rank#208  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlkairosdb.github.ioweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014CCRi and othersWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20162012201420132019
Current release5.0.0, May 20241.2.2, November 20181.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3commercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languagePythonScalaJavaGo
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'nonono
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layerSharding infobased on CassandraSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factordepending on storage layerselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
depending on storage layerEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layernoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesyes, based on authentication and database rulesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagesimple password-based access controlAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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BigchainDBFirebase Realtime DatabaseGeoMesaKairosDBWeaviate
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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