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System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. Milvus vs. Raima Database Manager vs. TempoIQ vs. Weaviate

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonMilvus  Xexclude from comparisonRaima Database Manager infoformerly named db_Vista  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searchesRDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database serverScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Time Series DBMSVector DBMS
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Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score2.31
Rank#113  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#259  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakermilvus.ioraima.comtempoiq.com (offline)github.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationmilvus.io/­docs/­overview.mddocs.raima.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleRaima Inc.TempoIQWeaviate B.V.
Initial release19832019198420122019
Current release19.4.1, November 20212.3.4, January 202415, June 20211.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Zilliz Cloud – Cloud-native service for Milvus
Implementation languageC++, GoCGo
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS info10.14 or later
Windows infowith WSL 2 enabled
Android
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesVector, Numeric and Stringyesyesyes 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 formatnono infoExporting/Importing of XML structures possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnoyesnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesPHPC++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnoyes infobased on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specificationnono
Triggersyesnoyesyes infoRealtime Alertsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Source-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemBounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesRole based access control and fine grained access rightsnosimple authentication-based access controlAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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FileMakerMilvusRaima Database Manager infoformerly named db_VistaTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDBWeaviate
Specific characteristicsMilvus is an open-source and cloud-native vector database built for production-ready...
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Raima Database Manager (RDM) is an embedded time-series database optimized to run...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesHighly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Decreased time-to-market Industry-standard interfaces & tools for making your job...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosRAG: retrieval augmented generation Video media : video understanding, video deduplication....
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Typical use cases include: Internet of Things (IoT) Embedded In-Memory Database Time-Series...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersMilvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Infor, ABB, The Boeing Company, BAE Systems, Dow Jones, Dun & Bradstreet, Fujitsu,...
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All companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsAs of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations​ ​ 3k+ enterprise...
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Over 30 000 applications developers worldwide have field-tested RDM products More...
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As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsMilvus was released under the open-source Apache License 2.0 in October 2019. Fully-managed...
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Just as the technical aspects of Raima Database Manager are flexible, so are the...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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