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System Properties Comparison Interbase vs. Valentina Server vs. Weaviate

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NameInterbase  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight proven RDBMS infooriginally from BorlandObject-relational database and reports serverAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
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Score5.04
Rank#71  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#329  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Score1.89
Rank#138  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasewww.valentina-db.netgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.embarcadero.com/­products/­interbasevalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.phpweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperEmbarcaderoParadigma SoftwareWeaviate B.V.
Initial release198419992019
Current releaseInterBase 2020, December 20195.7.51.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageCGo
Server operating systemsAndroid
iOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes 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 possibleno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ODBCGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Object Pascal
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoInterbase procedure and trigger languageyesno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesInterbase Change Viewsyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMultiversion concurreny controlyes
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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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InterbaseValentina ServerWeaviate
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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