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System Properties Comparison Cubrid vs. FileMaker vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

CUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTP

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

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.95
Rank	#186	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Score	36.48
Rank	#21	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	1.86
Rank	#123	Overall
	#11	Vector DBMS

Website

cubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)

www.claris.com/filemaker

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

cubrid.org/manuals

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

CUBRID Corporation, CUBRID Foundation

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2008

1983

2019

Current release

11.0, January 2021

19.4.1, November 2021

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C, C++, Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

via plugins

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

PHP

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantages

Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenarios

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

Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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