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System Properties Comparison Datomic vs. FileMaker vs. InfluxDB vs. Memcached vs. Weaviate

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NameDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.47
Rank#145  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score42.78
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score21.47
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score16.99
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score1.45
Rank#147  Overall
#9  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.datomic.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.memcached.orggithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.datomic.comwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperCognitectClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20121983201320032019
Current release1.0.7180, July 202419.4.1, November 20212.7.6, April 20241.6.29, June 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJava, ClojureGoCGo
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and Stringsnoyes 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 indexesyesyesnonoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infovia pluginsSQL-like query languagenoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Proprietary protocolGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesClojure
Java
PHP.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsyesnonono
TriggersBy using transaction functionsyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneSharding infoin enterprise version onlynoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14selectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicessimple rights management via user accountsyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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DatomicFileMakerInfluxDBMemcachedWeaviate
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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All companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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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 core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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