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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. Raima Database Manager vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Splunk vs. Weaviate

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonRaima Database Manager infoformerly named db_Vista  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseRDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database serverRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsAnalytics Platform for Big DataAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engineVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#259  Overall
#120  Relational DBMS
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgraima.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlwww.splunk.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.raima.comhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheredocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperFirebird FoundationRaima Inc.SAP infoformerly SybaseSplunk Inc.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase1984199220032019
Current release5.0.0, January 202415, June 202117, July 20151.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercialcommercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++CGo
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Android
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes 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.no infoExporting/Importing of XML structures possibleyesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesyesno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsGraphQL 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 API
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP RESTGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLyes infobased on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specificationyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlyesno
Triggersyesyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
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 conceptnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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FirebirdRaima Database Manager infoformerly named db_VistaSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server AnywhereSplunkWeaviate
Specific characteristicsRaima Database Manager (RDM) is an embedded time-series database optimized to run...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesDecreased time-to-market Industry-standard interfaces & tools for making your job...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosTypical use cases include: Internet of Things (IoT) Embedded In-Memory Database Time-Series...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersInfor, ABB, The Boeing Company, BAE Systems, Dow Jones, Dun & Bradstreet, Fujitsu,...
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All companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsOver 30 000 applications developers worldwide have field-tested RDM products More...
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As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsJust as the technical aspects of Raima Database Manager are flexible, so are the...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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