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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. VelocityDB vs. Weaviate

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Widely used in-process key-value storeA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlvelocitydb.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuideweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperBaseX GmbHOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleVelocityDB IncWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2007199420112019
Current release10.7, August 202318.1.40, May 20207.x1.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infocommercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)C#Go
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesnoyesyes 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.yes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availablenoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
.NetGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
.NetJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnonono
Triggersyes infovia eventsyes infoonly for the SQL APICallbacks are triggered when data changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsnoBased on Windows AuthenticationAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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BaseXOracle Berkeley DBVelocityDBWeaviate
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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