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System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. HugeGraph vs. Weaviate

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NameFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument store
Key-value store
Document storeGraph DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
github.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasehugegraph.apache.org/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperFatCloudGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014BaiduWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2012201220182019
Current release0.91.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC#JavaGo
Server operating systemsWindowshostedLinux
macOS
Unix
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes 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
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServernonoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
Android
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC#Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
Groovy
Java
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infovia applicationslimited functionality with using 'rules'asynchronous Gremlin script jobsno
Triggersyes infovia applicationsCallbacks are triggered when data changesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factoryes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnovia hugegraph-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infoedges in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsyes, based on authentication and database rulesUsers, roles and permissionsAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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FatDBFirebase Realtime DatabaseHugeGraphWeaviate
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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