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System Properties Comparison Adabas vs. BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. Weaviate vs. Yanza

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NameAdabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionOLTP - DBMS for mainframes and Linux/Unix/Windows environments infoused typically together with the Natural programming platformAn embedded key-value store for Go.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelMultivalue DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score3.58
Rank#91  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Score0.76
Rank#224  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score0.57
Rank#250  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score1.89
Rank#138  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.softwareag.com/­en_corporate/­platform/­adabas-natural.htmlgithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
yanza.com
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperSoftware AGSpotifyWeaviate B.V.Yanza
Initial release19712013201420192015
Current release1.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprisecommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageGoJavaGo
Server operating systemsBS2000
Linux
Unix
Windows
z/OS
z/VSE
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interfaceschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy referencesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith add-on product Adabas SQL GatewaynonoGraphQL is used as query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
SOAP-based API infowith add-on software Adabas SOA Gateway
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesNaturalGoJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresin Naturalnononono
Triggersnonononoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes, with additonal products like Adabas Cluster Services, Adabas Parallel Services, Adabas VistanoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with add-on product Event Replicatornoneyesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlonly with OS-specific tools (e.g. IBM RACF, CA Top Secret)noAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
no
More information provided by the system vendor
Adabas infodenotes "adaptable data base"BoltDBHeroicWeaviateYanza
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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