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System Properties Comparison JSqlDb vs. RocksDB vs. Speedb vs. Weaviate

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

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

An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB

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

Primary database model

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

Vector DBMS

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

Score	0.26
Rank	#310	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores

Score	1.52
Rank	#153	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Website

jsqldb.org (offline)

rocksdb.org

www.speedb.io

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Konrad von Backstrom

Facebook, Inc.

Speedb

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2018

2013

2020

2019

Current release

0.8, December 2018

9.2.1, May 2024

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0; commercial license available

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

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

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

functions in JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using RocksDB

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

API Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Speedb Open-source rebases on RocksDB's latest versions, with enhanced capabilities...
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Flexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
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Typical application scenarios

As a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
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Key customers

All companies that have data.
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Market metrics

As of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
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Licensing and pricing models

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