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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. NuoDB vs. WakandaDB vs. Weaviate

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access dataAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasewakanda.github.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdoc.nuodb.comwakanda.github.io/­docweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperFirebird FoundationDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Wakanda SASWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201320122019
Current release5.0.0, January 20242.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 20191.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++C++C++, JavaScriptGo
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes, 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 SQLyesyesnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLJava, SQLyesno
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtennoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infotunable commit protocolACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoTemporary tablenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative UsersyesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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FirebirdNuoDBWakandaDBWeaviate
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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