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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. HEAVY.AI vs. HugeGraph vs. Weaviate

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakergithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
github.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
github.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.heavy.aihugegraph.apache.org/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleHEAVY.AI, Inc.BaiduWeaviate B.V.
Initial release1983201620182019
Current release19.4.1, November 20215.10, January 20220.91.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC++ and CUDAJavaGo
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Unix
Data schemeyesyesyesyes, 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.yes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes 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 SQLyes infovia pluginsyesnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesPHPAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Groovy
Java
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoasynchronous Gremlin script jobsno
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoRound robinyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Multi-source replicationyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonovia hugegraph-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoedges in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDno
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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissionsAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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FileMakerHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022HugeGraphWeaviate
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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