DBMS > BoltDB vs. PieCloudDB vs. RocksDB vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. PieCloudDB vs. RocksDB vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

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

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

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

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

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

Score	0.32
Rank	#289	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

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

Score	2.85
Rank	#98	Overall
	#1	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

www.openpie.com

rocksdb.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

OpenPie

Facebook, Inc.

Rocket Software

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2013

1985

2019

Current release

2.1, January 2023

9.2.1, May 2024

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

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

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

Java API

JPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

U2 Basic

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

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

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

yes

ACID

configurable

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

PieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantages

Extreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenarios

PieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customers

Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities etc.,
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All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing models

PieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment；...
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Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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