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System Properties Comparison etcd vs. Manticore Search vs. PouchDB vs. Weaviate

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Nameetcd  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonWeaviate  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed reliable key-value storeMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBAn AI-native realtime vector database engine that integrates scalable machine learning models.
Primary database modelKey-value storeSearch engineDocument storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.03
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score1.52
Rank#153  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websiteetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
manticoresearch.compouchdb.comgithub.com/­weaviate/­weaviate
weaviate.io
Technical documentationetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
manual.manticoresearch.compouchdb.com/­guidesweaviate.io/­developers/­weaviate
DeveloperManticore SoftwareApache Software FoundationWeaviate B.V.
Initial release201720122019
Current release3.4, August 20196.0, February 20237.1.1, June 20191.19, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2Open SourceOpen Source infocommercial license available with Weaviate Enterprise
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoC++JavaScriptGo
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeFixed schemaschema-freeyes, maps to GraphQL interface
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleannoyes 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.noCan index from XMLnono
Secondary indexesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes infovia viewsyes infoall data objects are indexed in a semantic vector space (the Contextionary), all primitive fields are indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoGraphQL is used as query language
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JSON over HTTP
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
GraphQL 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
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
JavaScriptJavaScript / TypeScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyes, watching key changesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.Synchronous replication based on Galera libraryMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoAPI Keys
OpenID Connect Discovery
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etcdManticore SearchPouchDBWeaviate
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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