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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Coveo vs. Weaviate

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonCoveo  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.AI-powered hosted search, recommendation and personalization platform providing tools for both low-code and full-code developmentAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelKey-value storeSearch engineVector DBMS
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Score0.85
Rank#245  Overall
#36  Key-value stores
Score2.64
Rank#126  Overall
#11  Search engines
Score1.61
Rank#171  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.coveo.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.coveo.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperCoveoWeaviate B.V.
Initial release201320122019
Current release1.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoGo
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freehybrid - fields need to be configured prior to indexing, but relationships can be exploited at query time without pre-configurationyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes 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 indexesnoyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGoC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnogranular access controls, API key management, content filtersAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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BoltDBCoveoWeaviate
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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