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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. Dgraph vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. MongoDB vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Dgraph vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. MongoDB vs. Pinecone

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonMongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesOne of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructureA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Graph DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Document storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Search engine infointegrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS infoTime Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS infocurrently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.41
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score1.34
Rank#157  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#312  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#26  Time Series DBMS
Score400.93
Rank#5  Overall
#1  Document stores
Score3.09
Rank#84  Overall
#4  Vector DBMS
Websitealasql.orgdgraph.iowww.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.mongodb.comwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqldgraph.io/­docswww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storewww.mongodb.com/­docs/­manualdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffDgraph Labs, Inc.IBMMongoDB, IncPinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release20142016201720092019
Current release2.07.0.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoMongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono infoMongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)yes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptGoC and C++C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free infoAlthough schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatialString, Number, Boolean
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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeRead-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interfaceno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Actionscript infounofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure infounofficial driver
ColdFusion infounofficial driver
D infounofficial driver
Dart infounofficial driver
Delphi infounofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy infounofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp infounofficial driver
Lua infounofficial driver
MatLab infounofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell infounofficial driver
Prolog infounofficial driver
Python
R infounofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk infounofficial driver
Swift
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesJavaScript
Triggersyesnonoyes infoin MongoDB Atlas only
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesShardingSharding infoPartitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSynchronous replication via RaftActive-active shard replicationMulti-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency infocan be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency infodefault behaviour
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDnoMulti-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesNo - written data is immutableyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes infooptional, enabled by defaultyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesyes infoIn-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2no
User concepts infoAccess controlnono infoPlanned for future releasesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and roles
More information provided by the system vendor
AlaSQLDgraphIBM Db2 Event StoreMongoDBPinecone
Specific characteristicsMongoDB provides an integrated suite of cloud database and data services to accelerate...
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Competitive advantagesBuilt around the flexible document data model and unified API, MongoDB is a developer...
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Typical application scenariosAI-enriched intelligent apps (Continental, Telefonica, Iron Mountain) Internet of...
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Key customersADP, Adobe, Amadeus, AstraZeneca, Auto Trader, Barclays, BBVA, Bosch, Cisco, CERN,...
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Market metricsHundreds of millions downloads, over 150,000+ Atlas clusters provisioned every month...
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Licensing and pricing modelsMongoDB database server: Server-Side Public License (SSPL) . Commercial licenses...
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