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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. GridGain vs. searchxml vs. Weaviate vs. Yanza

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonGridGain  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache IgniteDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Native XML DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.55
Rank#150  Overall
#26  Key-value stores
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.gridgain.comwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productsgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
yanza.com
Technical documentationwww.gridgain.com/­docs/­index.htmlwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperGridGain Systems, Inc.informationpartners gmbhWeaviate B.V.Yanza
Initial release20132007201520192015
Current releaseGridGain 8.5.11.01.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprisecommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageGoJava, C++, .NetC++Go
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
WindowsWindows
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interfaceschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy referencesno
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.noyesyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnoGraphQL is used as query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoC#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)yes infoon the application servernono
Triggersnoyes (cache interceptors and events)nonoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes (replicated cache)yes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDmultiple readers, single writernono
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.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
no
More information provided by the system vendor
BoltDBGridGainsearchxmlWeaviateYanza
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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