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System Properties Comparison FatDB vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Weaviate

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

Cloud 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.

A cloud-native, realtime vector search engine integrating scalable machine learning models

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Document store

Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	11.51
Rank	#45	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	0.41
Rank	#295	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Website

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

github.com/semi-technologies/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate/current

Developer

FatCloud

Google

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2012

2017

2019

Current release

1.17, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes, with Cloud Functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

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.

User concepts

Access control

Can implement custom security layer via applications

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

OpenID Connect Discovery

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Typical application scenarios

As a stand-alone vector search engine, or use one of the many modules (transformers,...
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Key customers

A ll companies that have data.
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Licensing and pricing models

Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. We also offer Fully managed Weaviate on...
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DB-Engines blog posts

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Recent citations in the news

Supercharging Cassandra NoSQL For Machine Learning
13 January 2023, The Next Platform

Google’s Cloud Firestore NoSQL database hits general availability
31 January 2019, TechCrunch

Google touts open data cloud to unify information from every source
11 October 2022, SiliconANGLE News

Google launches Cloud Firestore, a new document database for app developers
3 October 2017, TechCrunch

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Weaviate Releases a Generative Search Module
8 February 2023, MarTech Series

SeMI Technologies becomes Weaviate USA - English - USA - English
18 January 2023, PR Newswire

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23 February 2022, Silicon Canals

SeMI Technologies’ search engine opens up new ways to query your data
22 February 2022, TechCrunch

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18 May 2020, hackernoon.com

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