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DBMS > FoundationDB vs. jBASE vs. OrigoDB vs. Speedb vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison FoundationDB vs. jBASE vs. OrigoDB vs. Speedb vs. Weaviate

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NameFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpeedb  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  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Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market.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.
DescriptionOrdered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseAn embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDBAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Multivalue DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Key-value storeVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.97
Rank#191  Overall
#32  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#87  Relational DBMS
Score1.36
Rank#157  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#54  Document stores
#21  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.20
Rank#310  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Score1.48
Rank#149  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbaseorigodb.comwww.speedb.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationapple.github.io/­foundationdbdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9origodb.com/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperFoundationDBRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Robert Friberg et alSpeedbWeaviate B.V.
Initial release201319912009 infounder the name LiveDB20202019
Current release6.2.28, November 20205.71.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0; commercial license availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++C#C++Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-free infosome layers support schemasschema-freeyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infosome layers support typingoptionalUser defined using .NET types and collectionsnoyes 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.yesno infocan be achieved using .NETnono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLsupported in specific SQL layer onlyEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICnonoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
.NetC
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin SQL-layer onlyyesyesnono
Triggersnoyesyes infoDomain Eventsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedhorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyesSource-replica replicationyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemLinearizable consistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityin SQL-layer onlynodepending on modelnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelRole based authorizationnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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Competitive advantagesFlexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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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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