DBMS > BoltDB vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. EDB Postgres vs. RocksDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Datastax Enterprise vs. EDB Postgres vs. RocksDB vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

DataStax Enterprise (DSE) is the always-on, scalable data platform built on Apache Cassandra and designed for hybrid Cloud. DSE integrates graph, search, analytics, administration, developer tooling, and monitoring into a unified platform.

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

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

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	5.93
Rank	#56	Overall
	#4	Wide column stores

Score	1.91
Rank	#130	Overall
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.datastax.com/products/datastax-enterprise

www.enterprisedb.com

rocksdb.org

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

docs.datastax.com

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

DataStax

EnterpriseDB

Facebook, Inc.

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2013

2011

2005

2013

2019

Current release

6.8, April 2020

14, December 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

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.

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL); Spark SQL

yes

standard with numerous extensions

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language)
TinkerPop Gremlin

with DSE Graph

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

C++ API
Java API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware, advanced replication for edge computing

Multi-source replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency

consistency level can be individually decided with each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

Access rights for users can be defined per object

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

DataStax Enterprise is scale-out data infrastructure for enterprises that need to...
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Competitive advantages

Supporting the following application requirements: Zero downtime - Built on Apache...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenarios

Applications that must be massively and linearly scalable with 100% uptime and able...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customers

Capital One, Cisco, Comcast, eBay, McDonald's, Microsoft, Safeway, Sony, UBS, and...
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All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

Among the Forbes 100 Most Innovative Companies, DataStax is trusted by 5 of the top...
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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

Annual subscription
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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