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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Dolt vs. Heroic vs. Weaviate vs. Yanza

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDolt  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schemaTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.96
Rank#193  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­dolthub/­dolt
www.dolthub.com
github.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
yanza.com
Technical documentationdocs.dolthub.comspotify.github.io/­heroicweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperDoltHub IncSpotifyWeaviate B.V.Yanza
Initial release20132018201420192015
Current release1.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprisecommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoGoJavaGo
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interfaceschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy referencesno
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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoGraphQL is used as query languageno
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
HTTP REST
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infocurrently in alpha releasenonono
Triggersnoyesnonoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneA database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.yesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoOnly one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startupAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
no
More information provided by the system vendor
BoltDBDoltHeroicWeaviateYanza
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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