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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Heroic vs. mSQL vs. Teradata Aster vs. Weaviate

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed 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 ElasticSearchmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and typesAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
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Score0.76
Rank#224  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score0.57
Rank#250  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score1.67
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score1.89
Rank#138  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­spotify/­heroichughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperSpotifyHughes TechnologiesTeradataWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20132014199420052019
Current release4.4, October 20211.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoJavaCGo
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Storeyes, 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.nononoyes infoin Aster File Storeno
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGoC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoR packagesno
Triggersnonononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnoneyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Frameworkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
noneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnonoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyesyes
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.nonononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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BoltDBHeroicmSQL infoMini SQLTeradata AsterWeaviate
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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