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System Properties Comparison LevelDB vs. OrigoDB vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. ToroDB vs. Weaviate

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

A MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL

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

Primary database model

Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Vector DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.75
Rank	#107	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#378	Overall
	#51	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.89
Rank	#138	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Website

github.com/google/leveldb

origodb.com

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

github.com/torodb/server

github.com/weaviate/weaviate
weaviate.io

Technical documentation

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

origodb.com/docs

weaviate.io/developers/weaviate

Developer

Google

Robert Friberg et al

Sybase, SAP

8Kdata

Weaviate B.V.

Initial release

2011

2009

under the name LiveDB

1993

2016

2019

Current release

1.23, February 2021

1.19, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL-V3

Open Source

commercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java 7 VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes, maps to GraphQL interface

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

User defined using .NET types and collections

yes

string, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id

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.

can be achieved using .NET

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

GraphQL is used as query language

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

GraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

.Net

Delphi
Perl
PHP

JavaScript / TypeScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica 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

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

Write ahead log

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role based authorization

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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

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

Weaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
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