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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. PouchDB vs. SpaceTime vs. Weaviate

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgpouchdb.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetimegithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualspouchdb.com/­guidesweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperFirebird FoundationApache Software FoundationMireoWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201220202019
Current release5.0.0, January 20247.1.1, June 20191.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++JavaScriptC++Go
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes 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 indexesyesyes infovia viewsnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptC#
C++
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLView functions in JavaScriptnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeFixed-grid hypercubesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Real-time block device replication (DRBD)yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoyesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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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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