DB-EnginesInfluxDB: Focus on building software with an easy-to-use serverless, scalable time series platformEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > etcd vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Weaviate

System Properties Comparison etcd vs. Heroic vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Weaviate

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
Nameetcd  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed reliable key-value storeTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.25
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#143  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websiteetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
github.com/­spotify/­heroicazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
spotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticsdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperSpotifyMicrosoftOracleWeaviate B.V.
Initial release2014201620112019
Current release3.4, August 201923.3, December 20231.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageGoJavaC++JavaGo
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
hostedLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesoptionalyes 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnoyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JSON over HTTP
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIGraphQL query language
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
C#
Java
PHP
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
JavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoTransact SQLnono
Triggersyes, watching key changesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding, horizontal partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.yesyesElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraintsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)no
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 infooff heap cacheyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesAccess rights for users and rolesAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
More information provided by the system vendor
etcdHeroicMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseOracle NoSQLWeaviate
Specific characteristicsWeaviate is an open source vector database that is robust, scalable, cloud-native,...
» more
Competitive advantagesFlexible deployment - Free, open source or fully-managed cloud vector database service...
» more
Typical application scenariosAs a database supporting the development of generative AI and semantic search applications...
» more
Key customersAll companies that have data. ​
» more
Market metricsAs of mid 2023: Over 2 million open source downloads 3500+ Weaviate Slack community...
» more
Licensing and pricing modelsWeaviate is open-source, and free to use. Weaviate is also available as a fully managed...
» more

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
etcdHeroicMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data WarehouseOracle NoSQLWeaviate
DB-Engines blog posts

Weaviate, an ANN Database with CRUD support
2 February 2021,  Etienne Dilocker, SeMI Technologies (sponsor) 

show all

Recent citations in the news

Monitor Amazon EKS Control Plane metrics using AWS Open Source monitoring services | Amazon Web Services
12 October 2023, AWS Blog

RBI reiterates need for underlying forex exposure for rupee derivatives transactions | Stock Market News
5 April 2024, Mint

6 Cool Kubernetes Operators and How to Use Them
22 January 2024, hackernoon.com

Killing a market, softly: How an RBI communique could end India's thriving ETCD market
7 April 2024, The Economic Times

Public preview: AKS cluster control plane metrics in managed Prometheus | Azure updates
12 February 2024, azure.microsoft.com

provided by Google News

Review: Google Bigtable scales with ease
7 September 2016, InfoWorld

provided by Google News

Migrate Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics to Amazon Redshift using AWS SCT | Amazon Web Services
18 October 2023, AWS Blog

Azure Synapse Runtime for Apache Spark 3.2 End of Support | Azure updates
22 March 2024, Microsoft

Azure Synapse Analytics: Everything you need to know about Microsoft's cloud analytics platform
24 September 2023, DataScientest

Azure Synapse vs. Databricks: Data Platform Comparison 2024
26 March 2024, eWeek

Azure Synapse Link for Cosmos DB: New Analytics Capabilities
10 November 2023, InfoQ.com

provided by Google News

OpenWorld 2013: Oracle NoSQL Database On the Rise?
13 December 2023, Channel Futures

Blog Theme - Details
21 August 2023, blogs.oracle.com

Oracle Defends Relational DBs Against NoSQL Competitors
25 November 2015, eWeek

Oracle Adds New AI-Enabling Features To MySQL HeatWave
23 March 2023, Forbes

Cloud database comparison: AWS, Microsoft, Google and Oracle
23 August 2022, TechTarget

provided by Google News

Build enterprise-ready generative AI solutions with Cohere foundation models in Amazon Bedrock and Weaviate vector ...
24 January 2024, AWS Blog

Weaviate Partners with Snowflake to Bring Secure GenAI to Snowpark Container Services
8 February 2024, Datanami

Foley Represents Cortical Ventures in $50M Series B Round for Weaviate
17 December 2023, Foley & Lardner LLP

Getting Started with Weaviate: A Beginner's Guide to Search with Vector Databases
18 July 2023, Towards Data Science

Weaviate Raises $50 Million Series B Funding to Meet Soaring Demand for AI Native Vector Database Technology ...
21 April 2023, PR Newswire

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

RaimaDB logo

RaimaDB, embedded database for mission-critical applications. When performance, footprint and reliability matters.
Try RaimaDB for free.

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

SingleStore logo

Build AI apps with Vectors on SQL and JSON with milliseconds response times.
Try it today.

Present your product here