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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Memcached vs. searchxml vs. Weaviate vs. Yanza

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  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.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Vector DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.memcached.orgwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productsgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
yanza.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalinformationpartners gmbhWeaviate B.V.Yanza
Initial release20132003201520192015
Current release1.6.27, May 20241.01.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen 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 languageGoCC++Go
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
WindowsWindows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interfaceschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes 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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoGraphQL is used as query languageno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocolRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoon the application servernono
Triggersnonononoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnomultiple readers, single writernono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
no
More information provided by the system vendor
BoltDBMemcachedsearchxmlWeaviateYanza
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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