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System Properties Comparison Faircom EDGE vs. Firebird vs. NuoDB vs. Tibero vs. Weaviate

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NameFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTibero  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsA secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from OracleAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.02
Rank#368  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
#156  Relational DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.89
Rank#198  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score1.78
Rank#140  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databaseus.tmaxsoft.com/­products/­tiberogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmlwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdoc.nuodb.comtechnet.tmaxsoft.com/­upload/­download/­online/­tibero/­pver-20150504-000002/­index.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperFairCom CorporationFirebird FoundationDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.TmaxSoftWeaviate B.V.
Initial release19792000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201320032019
Current releaseV3, October 20205.0.0, January 20246, April 20151.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageANSI C, C++C and C++C++C and AssemblerGo
Server operating systemsAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyesyesyes 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.yesnoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoANSI SQL queriesyesyesyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++PSQLJava, SQLPersistent Stored Procedure (PSM)no
Triggersyesyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningnonedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenhorizontal partitioning infoby range, hash, list or compositeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsSource-replica replicationyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infowhen using SQLyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infotunable commit protocolACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoTemporary tableno infoplanned for next versionyes
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.Users with fine-grained authorization conceptStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Faircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGEFirebirdNuoDBTiberoWeaviate
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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