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

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
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 serverScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsAn 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
Graph DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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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
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.searchxml.net/­category/­productsterminusdb.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
yanza.com
Technical documentationwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#weaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
Developerinformationpartners gmbhDataChemist Ltd.Weaviate B.V.Yanza
Initial release20132015201820192015
Current release1.011.0.0, January 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoGPL V3Open 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
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC++Prolog, RustGo
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
WindowsLinuxWindows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes, 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.noyesnonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (WOQL)GraphQL is used as query languageno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGoC++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsJavaScript
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoon the application serveryesnono
Triggersnonoyesnoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneGraph PartitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsJournaling Streamsyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesmultiple readers, single writerACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory journalingyesyes
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 servicesRole-based access controlAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
no
More information provided by the system vendor
BoltDBsearchxmlTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemistWeaviateYanza
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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