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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Ingres vs. RocksDB vs. TerminusDB vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Well established RDBMS

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.80
Rank	#215	Overall
	#31	Key-value stores

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

rocksdb.org

terminusdb.com

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

docs.actian.com/ingres

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Actian Corporation

Facebook, Inc.

DataChemist Ltd.

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2013

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2013

2018

2019

Current release

11.2, May 2022

9.2.1, May 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Secondary indexes

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

C++ API
Java API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

horizontal partitioning

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Ingres Replicator

yes

Journaling Streams

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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