DBMS > BoltDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. RocksDB vs. RRDtool vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Microsoft Access vs. RocksDB vs. RRDtool vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

Microsoft Access combines a backend RDBMS (JET / ACE Engine) with a GUI frontend for data manipulation and queries.

The Access frontend is often used for accessing other datasources (DBMS, Excel, etc.)

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

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

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

Primary database model

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Score	101.16
Rank	#11	Overall
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Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
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Score	1.90
Rank	#132	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/access

rocksdb.org

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

developer.microsoft.com/en-us/access

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Microsoft

Facebook, Inc.

Tobias Oetiker

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2013

1992

2013

1999

2019

Current release

1902 (16.0.11328.20222), March 2019

9.2.1, May 2024

1.8.0, 2022

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Bundled with Microsoft Office

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Not a real database server, but making use of DLLs

Linux

HP-UX
Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

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

but not compliant to any SQL standard

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
DAO
ODBC
OLE DB

C++ API
Java API

in-process shared library
Pipes

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
VBA
Visual Basic.NET

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Triggers

yes

since Access 2010 using the ACE-engine

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

but no files for transaction logging

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

but no files for transaction logging

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

a simple user-level security was built in till version Access 2003

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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