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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. IBM Db2 warehouse vs. Lovefield vs. Splunk vs. Weaviate

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Cloud-based data warehousing serviceEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptAnalytics Platform for Big DataAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.30
Rank#164  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2/­warehousegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.splunk.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunkweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperIBMGoogleSplunk Inc.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release20132014201420032019
Current release2.1.12, February 20171.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition availableOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageGoJavaScriptGo
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes, 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.nono infoImport/export of XML data possiblenoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commandsGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP RESTGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGoJava
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
JavaScriptC#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPL/SQL, SQL PLnoyesno
TriggersnoyesUsing read-only observersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnoneMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDno infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searchingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infousing MemoryDBnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and rolesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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BoltDBIBM Db2 warehouse infoformerly named IBM dashDBLovefieldSplunkWeaviate
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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