DBMS > BoltDB vs. Derby vs. RisingWave vs. RocksDB vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Derby vs. RisingWave vs. RocksDB vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

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

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

Score	4.60
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#238	Overall
	#110	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

db.apache.org/derby

www.risingwave.com/database

rocksdb.org

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

db.apache.org/derby/manuals/index.html

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

RisingWave Labs

Facebook, Inc.

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2013

1997

2022

2013

2019

Current release

10.17.1.0, November 2023

1.2, September 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

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

Rust

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Docker
Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Standard SQL-types and JSON

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

Secondary indexes

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

C++ API
Java API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

UDFs in Python or Java

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

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and Roles

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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