DBMS > Firebird vs. Google BigQuery vs. Memgraph vs. Splunk vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Google BigQuery vs. Memgraph vs. Splunk vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Analytics Platform for Big Data

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

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Score	20.50
Rank	#30	Overall
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Score	58.10
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	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	3.19
Rank	#94	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

www.firebirdsql.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

memgraph.com

www.splunk.com

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

memgraph.com/docs

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

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Developer

Firebird Foundation

Google

Memgraph Ltd

Splunk Inc.

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2010

2017

2003

2019

Current release

5.0.0, January 2024

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and schema-optional

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

HTTP REST

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication using RAFT

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

with snapshot isolation

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Users, roles and permissions

Access rights for users and roles

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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