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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. EsgynDB vs. Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Weaviate

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.esgyn.cngithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroiccloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperEsgynSpotifyIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Weaviate B.V.
Initial release20132015201420102019
Current release1.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC++, JavaJavaErlangGo
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linuxhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesnoyes 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnonoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGoAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored ProceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersnononoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication between multi datacentersyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
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.nonononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
More information provided by the system vendor
BoltDBEsgynDBHeroicIBM CloudantWeaviate
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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