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

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  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.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSSearch engineVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicsolr.apache.orggithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
yanza.com
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicsolr.apache.org/­resources.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperSpotifyApache Software FoundationWeaviate B.V.Yanza
Initial release20132014200620192015
Current release9.6.0, April 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open 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
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJavaJavaGo
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fieldsyes, maps to GraphQL interfaceschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typingyes 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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSolr Parallel SQL InterfaceGraphQL is used as query languageno
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoJava pluginsnono
Triggersnonoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesnoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnooptimistic lockingnono
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.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
no
More information provided by the system vendor
BoltDBHeroicSolrWeaviateYanza
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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