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DBMS > Dolt vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Ingres vs. NSDb vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Dolt vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Ingres vs. NSDb vs. Weaviate

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NameDolt  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schemaCloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.Well established RDBMSScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.96
Rank#193  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score4.11
Rank#81  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dolthub/­dolt
www.dolthub.com
firebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingresnsdb.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.dolthub.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.actian.com/­ingresnsdb.io/­Architectureweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperDoltHub IncGoogleActian CorporationWeaviate B.V.
Initial release201820171974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s20172019
Current release11.2, May 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoCJava, ScalaGo
Server operating systemsLinux
macOS
Windows
hostedAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes 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.nonono infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyesSQL-like query languageGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
HTTP REST
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
Java
Scala
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infocurrently in alpha releaseyes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsyesnono
Triggersyesyes, with Cloud Functionsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslyShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesA database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.Multi-source replicationIngres Replicatoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoUsing Cloud Dataflownonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlOnly one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startupAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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DoltGoogle Cloud FirestoreIngresNSDbWeaviate
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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