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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Faircom DB vs. Heroic vs. JSqlDb vs. Weaviate

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.76
Rank#224  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score0.24
Rank#311  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
#140  Relational DBMS
Score0.57
Rank#250  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score1.89
Rank#138  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicjsqldb.org (offline)github.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperFairCom CorporationSpotifyKonrad von BackstromWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20131979201420182019
Current releaseV12, November 20200.8, December 20181.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infoRestricted, free version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoANSI C, C++JavaGo
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,schema-freeschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyesnoyes 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 Elasticsearchnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsnonoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
JavaScriptJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++nofunctions in JavaScriptno
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioningShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).yesnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayestunable from ACID to Eventually Consistentnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyesyes infousing RocksDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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BoltDBFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACEHeroicJSqlDbWeaviate
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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