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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Elasticsearch vs. IBM Db2 vs. Prometheus vs. Weaviate

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/LinuxOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelKey-value storeSearch engineRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDBTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Document store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score132.83
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score125.90
Rank#9  Overall
#6  Relational DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2prometheus.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2prometheus.io/­docsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperElasticIBMWeaviate B.V.
Initial release201320101983 infohost version20152019
Current release8.6, January 202312.1, October 20161.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoElastic Licensecommercial infofree version is availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJavaC and C++GoGo
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesNumeric data onlyyes 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 infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languageyesnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
ADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyesnono
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux VersionShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)yes infoby Federationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoES-Hadoop Connectornonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allnoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACIDnono
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.noMemcached and Redis integrationnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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BoltDBElasticsearchIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2PrometheusWeaviate
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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