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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. LeanXcale vs. Memgraph vs. mSQL vs. Weaviate

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4jmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
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Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.36
Rank#280  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
#129  Relational DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#94  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.leanxcale.commemgraph.comhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsmemgraph.com/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperFirebird FoundationLeanXcaleMemgraph LtdHughes TechnologiesWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2015201719942019
Current release5.0.0, January 20244.4, October 20211.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availablecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C and C++CGo
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free and schema-optionalyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes 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 indexesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infothrough Apache DerbynoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infodynamic graph partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication using RAFTnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes inforelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID infowith snapshot isolationnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)noyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptUsers, roles and permissionsnoAPI Keys
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Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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As 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 modelsYou can check out our pricing model and licenses on the company website .
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