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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. MaxDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Sadas Engine vs. Weaviate

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSVector DBMS
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Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakermaxdb.sap.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlwww.sadasengine.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationmaxdb.sap.com/­documentationdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997OracleSADAS s.r.l.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release19831984201120062019
Current release19.4.1, November 20217.9.10.12, February 202423.3, December 20238.01.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)commercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++JavaC++Go
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalyesyes 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 formatnononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesPHP.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnonono
Triggersyesyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Source-replica replicationElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featurenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)no
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.noyes infooff heap cacheyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'yes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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FileMakerMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-DOracle NoSQLSadas EngineWeaviate
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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