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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. SiriDB vs. Weaviate vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Open Source Time Series DBMS

An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.76
Rank	#224	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	0.57
Rank	#250	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#346	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.89
Rank	#138	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

github.com/spotify/heroic

siridb.com

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

yanza.com

Technical documentation

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.siridb.com

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Spotify

Cesbit

Weaviate B.V.

Yanza

Initial release

2013

2014

2017

2019

2015

Current release

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

yes

string, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

all data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

HTTP API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantages

Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenarios

As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing models

Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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