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System Properties Comparison Firebolt vs. FoundationDB vs. GBase vs. Weaviate vs. Yaacomo

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NameFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.An 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 DBMSDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Relational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.90
Rank#134  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.firebolt.iogithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.gbase.cngithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
yaacomo.com
Technical documentationdocs.firebolt.ioapple.github.io/­foundationdbweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperFirebolt Analytics Inc.FoundationDBGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Weaviate B.V.Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release20202013200420192009
Current release6.2.28, November 2020GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c1.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprisecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageC++C, Java, PythonGo
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAndroid
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free infosome layers support schemasyesyes, maps to GraphQL interfaceyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesno infosome layers support typingyesyes 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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyessupported in specific SQL layer onlyStandard with numerous extensionsGraphQL is used as query languageyes
APIs and other access methods.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C#JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoin SQL-layer onlyuser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layeryesyesyesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlyyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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FireboltFoundationDBGBaseWeaviateYaacomo
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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