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

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparisonYTsaurus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.An AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
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Score0.62
Rank#230  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score2.96
Rank#89  Overall
#13  Key-value stores
Score1.23
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score1.45
Rank#147  Overall
#9  Vector DBMS
Score0.16
Rank#320  Overall
#44  Document stores
#47  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltrocksdb.orgwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.htmlgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
ytsaurus.tech
Technical documentationgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikidocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­timesten/­index.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviateytsaurus.tech/­docs/­en
DeveloperFacebook, Inc.Oracle infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005Weaviate B.V.Yandex
Initial release20132013199820192023
Current release9.4.0, June 2024Release 22.11.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoBSDcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate EnterpriseOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoC++GoC++
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxIBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64
Ubuntu
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoyesyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy referencesyes
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 indexesnonoyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesGraphQL is used as query languageYQL, an SQL-based language, is supported
APIs and other access methodsC++ API
Java API
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGoC
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoPL/SQLno
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyesACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpointsyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
Access Control Lists
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BoltDBRocksDBTimesTenWeaviateYTsaurus
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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