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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. Graphite vs. Oracle vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Pinecone

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonOracle  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperWidely used RDBMSEnhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.A managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS infowith Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS infosince Oracle 23
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Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score1244.08
Rank#1  Overall
#1  Relational DBMS
Score2.10
Rank#119  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webwww.oracle.com/­databasewww.percona.com/­software/­mysql-database/­percona-serverwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlgraphite.readthedocs.iodocs.oracle.com/­en/­databasewww.percona.com/­downloads/­Percona-Server-LATESTdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffChris DavisOraclePerconaPinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release20142006198020082019
Current release23c, September 20238.0.36-28, 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial inforestricted free version is availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptPythonC and C++C and C++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
Unix
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linuxhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes infoSchemaless in JSON and XML columnsyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoNumeric data onlyyesyesString, 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.nonoyesyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesno
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIHTTP API
Sockets
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoPL/SQL infoalso stored procedures in Java possibleyes
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding, horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infocan be realized in PL/SQLnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnonenoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACID infoisolation level can be parameterizedACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infolockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infoVersion 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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