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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. EsgynDB vs. HugeGraph vs. NSDb vs. Weaviate

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMS
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.16
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.esgyn.cngithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
nsdb.iogithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationhugegraph.apache.org/­docsnsdb.io/­Architectureweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperEsgynBaiduWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20132015201820172019
Current release0.91.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 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 languageGoC++, JavaJavaJava, ScalaGo
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux
macOS
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes 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 infoalso supports composite index and range indexall fields are automatically indexedyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like query languageGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGoAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetGroovy
Java
Python
Java
Scala
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Proceduresasynchronous Gremlin script jobsnono
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication between multi datacentersyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesvia hugegraph-sparknono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infoedges in graphnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissionsAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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BoltDBEsgynDBHugeGraphNSDbWeaviate
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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