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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. CouchDB vs. RDFox vs. STSdb vs. Weaviate

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionRelational DBMS
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.29
Rank#300  Overall
#24  Graph DBMS
#13  RDF stores
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltcouchdb.apache.orgwww.oxfordsemantic.techgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4github.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.oxfordsemantic.techweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerOxford Semantic TechnologiesSTS Soft SCWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20132005201720112019
Current release3.3.3, December 20236.0, Septermber 20224.0.8, September 20151.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoErlangC++C#Go
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoRDF schemasyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes 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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia viewsnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
.NET Client APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGoC
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
C
Java
C#
Java
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0noneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
replication via a shared file systemnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesno infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyes
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.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseRoles, resources, and access typesnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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BoltDBCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"RDFoxSTSdbWeaviate
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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