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DBMS > FileMaker vs. Interbase vs. RethinkDB vs. TigerGraph vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Interbase vs. RethinkDB vs. TigerGraph vs. Weaviate

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.Light-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score47.91
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score4.08
Rank#75  Overall
#41  Relational DBMS
Score2.66
Rank#107  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaserethinkdb.comwww.tigergraph.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaserethinkdb.com/­docsdocs.tigergraph.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleEmbarcaderoThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017Weaviate B.V.
Initial release19831984200920172019
Current release19.4.1, November 2021InterBase 2020, December 20192.4.1, August 20201.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++C++Go
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesyes 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 formatno infoexport as XML data possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyesnoSQL-like query language (GSQL)GraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesPHP.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
C++
Java
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyesno
TriggersyesyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding inforange basedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Interbase Change ViewsSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDAtomic single-document operationsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes infoMVCC basedyesyes
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.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infousers and table-level permissionsRole-based access controlAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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FileMakerInterbaseRethinkDBTigerGraphWeaviate
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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