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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. RocksDB vs. TimesTen vs. VoltDB vs. Weaviate

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Name

Description

An embedded key-value store for Go.

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

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

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

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

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#5	Vector DBMS

Website

github.com/boltdb/bolt

rocksdb.org

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

www.voltdb.com

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

docs.voltdb.com

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

VoltDB Inc.

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2013

1998

2010

2019

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

11.3, April 2022

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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.

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

only a subset of SQL 99

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL

Java

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication
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

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

Weaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
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Competitive advantages

Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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