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

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

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™  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 MobileCloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelDocument storeObject oriented DBMSRelational DBMS infoColumn orientedVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score10.68
Rank#43  Overall
#27  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databaseobjectbox.iowww.vertica.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
yanza.com
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.objectbox.iovertica.com/­documentationweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014ObjectBox LimitedOpenText infopreviously Micro Focus and Hewlett PackardWeaviate B.V.Yanza
Initial release20122017200520192015
Current release12.0.3, January 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0commercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprisecommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono infoon-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containersnono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageC and C++C++Go
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
LinuxWindows
Data schemeschema-freeyesYes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.yes, maps to GraphQL interfaceschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesyesNo Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.yes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoFull 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.GraphQL is used as query languageno
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native APIADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL infocharacter-based, interactive, front-end utility
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
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'noyes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differencesnono
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes, called Custom Alertsnoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesonline/offline synchronization between client and serverMulti-source replication infoOne, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.yesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infoBi-directional Spark integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDnono
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hashAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
no
More information provided by the system vendor
Firebase Realtime DatabaseObjectBoxVertica infoOpenText™ Vertica™WeaviateYanza
Specific characteristicsDeploy-anywhere database for large-scale analytical deployments. Deploy off-cloud,...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesFast, scalable, and capable of high concurrency. Separation of compute/storage leverages...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosCommunication and network analytics, Embedded analytics, Fraud monitoring and Risk...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersAbiba Systems, Adform, adMarketplace, AmeriPride, Anritsu, AOL, Avito, Auckland Transport,...
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All 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 modelsCost-based models and subscription-based models are both available. One license is...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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