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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Raima Database Manager vs. RocksDB vs. Weaviate

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonRaima Database Manager infoformerly named db_Vista  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Widely used in-process key-value storeRDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database serverEmbeddable 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 storeKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Key-value storeVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#259  Overall
#121  Relational DBMS
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score3.41
Rank#86  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlraima.comrocksdb.orggithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmldocs.raima.comgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikiweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleRaima Inc.Facebook, Inc.Weaviate B.V.
Initial release20131994198420132019
Current release18.1.40, May 202015, June 20219.2.1, May 20241.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infocommercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)CC++Go
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Android
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesnoyes 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.noyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionno infoExporting/Importing of XML structures possiblenono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesnoyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableyesnoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
C++ API
Java API
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infobased on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specificationnono
Triggersnoyes infoonly for the SQL APIyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationyesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDACIDyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonononoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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BoltDBOracle Berkeley DBRaima Database Manager infoformerly named db_VistaRocksDBWeaviate
Specific characteristicsRaima Database Manager (RDM) is an embedded time-series database optimized to run...
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantagesDecreased time-to-market Industry-standard interfaces & tools for making your job...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenariosTypical use cases include: Internet of Things (IoT) Embedded In-Memory Database Time-Series...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customersInfor, ABB, The Boeing Company, BAE Systems, Dow Jones, Dun & Bradstreet, Fujitsu,...
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All companies that have data. ​
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Market metricsOver 30 000 applications developers worldwide have field-tested RDM products More...
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As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsJust as the technical aspects of Raima Database Manager are flexible, so are the...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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