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DBMS > Firebird vs. Prometheus vs. Weaviate vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Prometheus vs. Weaviate vs. Yaacomo

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DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgprometheus.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
yaacomo.com
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsprometheus.io/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperFirebird FoundationWeaviate B.V.Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201520192009
Current release5.0.0, January 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprisecommercial
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++GoGo
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Linux
Windows
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interfaceyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy referencesyes
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.no infoImport of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoGraphQL is used as query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnono
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoby FederationyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
More information provided by the system vendor
FirebirdPrometheusWeaviateYaacomo
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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