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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. RocksDB vs. SQLite vs. Trafodion vs. Weaviate

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQLite  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMSTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score3.41
Rank#86  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score111.41
Rank#10  Overall
#7  Relational DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltrocksdb.orgwww.sqlite.orgtrafodion.apache.orggithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikiwww.sqlite.org/­docs.htmltrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperFacebook, Inc.Dwayne Richard HippApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20132013200020142019
Current release9.2.1, May 20243.46.0  (23 May 2024), May 20242.3.0, February 20191.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoPublic DomainOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC++CC++, JavaGo
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linuxserver-lessLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyes infodynamic column typesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyes infonot rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.yesyes 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnonoyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Java API
ADO.NET infoinofficial driver
JDBC infoinofficial driver
ODBC infoinofficial driver
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGoC
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoJava Stored Proceduresno
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnoneyes, via HBaseyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyesACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infovia file-system locksyesyes
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.noyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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BoltDBRocksDBSQLiteTrafodionWeaviate
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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