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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. OrientDB vs. Realm vs. Weaviate

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NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Document storeVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score4.61
Rank#72  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbaseorientdb.orgrealm.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlrealm.io/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperEmbarcaderoOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Weaviate B.V.
Initial release1984201020142019
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20193.2.29, March 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open SourceOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCJavaGo
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes 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 infoexport as XML data possiblenonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language, no joinsnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageJava, Javascriptno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryno
TriggersyesHooksyes infoChange Listenersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change ViewsMulti-source replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes inforelationship in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyesyes
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 infoIn-Memory realmyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableyesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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InterbaseOrientDBRealmWeaviate
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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