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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. ObjectBox vs. Solr vs. Weaviate vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. ObjectBox vs. Solr vs. Weaviate vs. Yanza

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelDocument storeObject oriented DBMSSearch engineVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaseobjectbox.iosolr.apache.orggithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
yanza.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.objectbox.iosolr.apache.org/­resources.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014ObjectBox LimitedApache Software FoundationWeaviate B.V.Yanza
Initial release20122017200620192015
Current release9.5.0, February 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprisecommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++JavaGo
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyes, maps to GraphQL interfaceschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy referencesno
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSolr Parallel SQL InterfaceGraphQL is used as query languageno
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'noJava pluginsnono
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesnoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesonline/offline synchronization between client and serveryesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDoptimistic lockingnono
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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesyesyesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
no
More information provided by the system vendor
Firebase Realtime DatabaseObjectBoxSolrWeaviateYanza
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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