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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Kinetica vs. Weaviate

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Cloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.kinetica.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasedocs.heavy.aidocs.kinetica.comweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014HEAVY.AI, Inc.KineticaWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20132012201620122019
Current release5.10, January 20227.1, August 20211.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoC++ and CUDAC, C++Go
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinuxLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyesyes 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 indexesnoyesnoyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGoJava
JavaScript
Objective-C
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnolimited functionality with using 'rules'nouser defined functionsno
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoRound robinShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyesnonono
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.noyesyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles on table levelAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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BoltDBFirebase Realtime DatabaseHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022KineticaWeaviate
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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