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System Properties Comparison AntDB vs. BoltDB vs. RocksDB vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

A scalable, multi-tenant, MPP-architectured RDBMS for OLTP and OLAP operations, highly compatible with Oracle

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.28
Rank	#301	Overall
	#137	Relational DBMS

Score	0.76
Rank	#224	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	1.89
Rank	#138	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Website

www.asiainfo.com/en_us/product_aisware_antdb_detail.html

github.com/boltdb/bolt

rocksdb.org

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Social network pages

Developer

AsiaInfo Technologies Limited

Facebook, Inc.

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2013

2019

Current release

8.11.4, April 2024

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL2016 compliant

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL protocol compliant
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

AntDB was initiated in 2008. On the core system of operators, AntDB provides online...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantages

HTAP mixed load: AntDB is a universal, enterprise-level distributed relational database,...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenarios

As the core software of large enterprise, AntDB supports multi-scenario deployment....
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customers

China Mobile, China Telecom, China Unicom, Aeon Life, China Mobile Tietong, CITIC...
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All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

More than 1 billion subscribers in 24 provinces across China are served by AntDB...
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As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing models

Certificates and licenses CMMI5 Certificate licensed by CMMI Institute IT Product...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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