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System Properties Comparison Firebase Realtime Database vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk vs. SurrealDB vs. Weaviate

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NameFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  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.RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsAnalytics Platform for Big DataA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMSAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument store
Graph DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score89.10
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score1.02
Rank#190  Overall
#33  Document stores
#18  Graph DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitefirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.splunk.comsurrealdb.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasehelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheredocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunksurrealdb.com/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014SAP infoformerly SybaseSplunk Inc.SurrealDB LtdWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20121992200320222019
Current release17, July 2015v1.5.0, May 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen SourceOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageRustGo
Server operating systemshostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes 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.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsSQL-like query languageGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTGraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlyesno
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
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 Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingACIDno
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesyes, based on authentication and database rulesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Firebase Realtime DatabaseSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server AnywhereSplunkSurrealDBWeaviate
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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