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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. Raima Database Manager vs. RocksDB vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database server

Embeddable 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 model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.76
Rank	#224	Overall
	#32	Key-value stores

Score	0.48
Rank	#261	Overall
	#122	Relational DBMS
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.00
Rank	#84	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	1.89
Rank	#138	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

raima.com

rocksdb.org

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

docs.raima.com

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Raima Inc.

Facebook, Inc.

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2013

1984

2013

2019

Current release

15, June 2021

8.11.4, April 2024

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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/Importing of XML structures 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

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specification

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

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 or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

Raima 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 advantages

Decreased 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 scenarios

Typical 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 customers

Infor, 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 metrics

Over 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 models

Just 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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News

Raima Unveils RaimaDB 16.0: Elevating Database Performance and User Experience
29 February 2024

Raima Announces Release of Raima Database Manager (RDM) v15, a Powerful Embedded Time Series Database
10 June 2021

Raima Announces Release of Raima Database Manager (RDM) v14.2, a Powerful IoT Edge Embedded Database
8 October 2020

Raima Joins BlackBerry QNX Channel Partner Program to Deliver Safety-Critical and Secure Software Solutions
1 October 2020

Raima Expands Their Reseller Network in Asia
19 May 2020

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