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DBMS > Firebolt vs. Prometheus vs. Splunk vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison Firebolt vs. Prometheus vs. Splunk vs. Weaviate

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NameFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemAnalytics Platform for Big DataAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.49
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Score7.56
Rank#49  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score93.02
Rank#13  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score1.48
Rank#149  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.firebolt.ioprometheus.iowww.splunk.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.firebolt.ioprometheus.io/­docsdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperFirebolt Analytics Inc.Splunk Inc.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release2020201520032019
Current release1.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoGo
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesNumeric data onlyyesyes 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 infoImport of XML data possibleyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnono infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methods.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP RESTGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layeryes infoby FederationMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesAPI 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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