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System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. searchxml vs. Sqrrl vs. Weaviate vs. Yanza

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSqrrl  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
Sqrrl has been acquired by Amazon and became a part of Amazon Web Services. It has been removed from the DB-Engines ranking.Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverAdaptable, secure NoSQL built on Apache AccumuloAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelKey-value storeNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store
Vector DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productssqrrl.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
yanza.com
Technical documentationwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
Developerinformationpartners gmbhAmazon infooriginally Sqrrl Data, Inc.Weaviate B.V.Yanza
Initial release20132015201220192015
Current release1.01.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprisecommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageGoC++JavaGo
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
WindowsLinuxWindows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interfaceschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy referencesno
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoGraphQL is used as query languageno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Accumulo Shell
Java API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoC++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsActionscript
C infousing GLib
C#
C++
Cocoa
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoon the application servernonono
Triggersnonononoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infomaking use of HadoopShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsselectable replication factor infomaking use of Hadoopyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoDocument store kept consistent with combination of global timestamping, row-level transactions, and server-side consistency resolution.Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesmultiple readers, single writerAtomic updates per row, document, or graph entitynono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesCell-level Security, Data-Centric Security, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
no
More information provided by the system vendor
BoltDBsearchxmlSqrrlWeaviateYanza
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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