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DBMS > FileMaker vs. OrigoDB vs. Vitess vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison FileMaker vs. OrigoDB vs. Vitess vs. Weaviate

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NameFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQLAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score48.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.claris.com/­filemakerorigodb.comvitess.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationorigodb.com/­docsvitess.io/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleRobert Friberg et alThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScaleWeaviate B.V.
Initial release19832009 infounder the name LiveDB20132019
Current release19.4.1, November 202115.0.2, December 20221.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC#GoGo
Server operating systemsiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyesyes 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 infocan be achieved using .NETno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infovia pluginsnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsFilemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesPHP.NetAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesyes infoproprietary syntaxno
Triggersyesyes infoDomain Eventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14Source-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesdepending on modelyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID at shard levelno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoWrite ahead logyesyes
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 servicesRole based authorizationUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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FileMakerOrigoDBVitessWeaviate
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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