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System Properties Comparison LevelDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. SQream DB vs. Valentina Server vs. Weaviate

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NameLevelDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string valuesBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsObject-relational database and reports serverAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.75
Rank#107  Overall
#19  Key-value stores
Score0.52
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.73
Rank#228  Overall
#105  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#329  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Score1.89
Rank#138  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­google/­leveldbwww.postgres-xl.orgsqream.comwww.valentina-db.netgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­leveldb/­blob/­main/­doc/­index.mdwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.sqream.comvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.phpweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperGoogleSQream TechnologiesParadigma SoftwareWeaviate B.V.
Initial release20112014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB201719992019
Current release1.23, February 202110 R1, October 20182022.1.6, December 20225.7.51.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaGo
Server operating systemsIllumos
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
macOS
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyesyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyes infostring, int, float, geo point, date, cross reference, fuzzy references
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.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyesyesGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
ODBCGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC++
Go
Java info3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Python info3rd party binding
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsuser defined functions in Pythonyesno
Triggersnoyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioninghorizontal and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoMVCCACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infowith automatic compression on writesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
More information provided by the system vendor
LevelDBPostgres-XLSQream DBValentina ServerWeaviate
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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