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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. RocksDB vs. Weaviate

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value storeVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.76
Rank#224  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score1.73
Rank#147  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score4.00
Rank#84  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score1.89
Rank#138  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltopentsdb.netrocksdb.orggithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikiweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
Developercurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsFacebook, Inc.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release2013201120132019
Current release8.11.4, April 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoJavaC++Go
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsnoyes 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.nononono
Secondary indexesnononoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsHTTP API
Telnet API
C++ API
Java API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGoErlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on HBasehorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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BoltDBOpenTSDBRocksDBWeaviate
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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