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DBMS > Firebase Realtime Database vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Weaviate

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Coherence  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Oracles in-memory data grid solutionAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument storeKey-value storeVector DBMS
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Score13.11
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.69
Rank#130  Overall
#22  Key-value stores
Score1.50
Rank#142  Overall
#10  Vector DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.oracle.com/­java/­coherencegithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.oracle.com/­en/­middleware/­standalone/­coherenceweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014OracleWeaviate B.V.
Initial release201220072019
Current release14.1, August 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaGo
Server operating systemshostedAll OS with a Java VM
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'nono
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes infoLive Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with selectable consistency levelyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesconfigurableno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infooptionallyyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesauthentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authenticationAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Firebase Realtime DatabaseOracle CoherenceWeaviate
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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