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DBMS > AlaSQL vs. eXtremeDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. eXtremeDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Pinecone

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisoneXtremeDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryNatively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clusteringDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Document storeVector DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
#118  Relational DBMS
Score0.80
Rank#214  Overall
#99  Relational DBMS
#18  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websitealasql.orgwww.mcobject.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlwww.mcobject.com/­docs/­extremedb.htmcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffMcObjectIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Pinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release2014200120102019
Current release8.2, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-Licensecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyes
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC and C++Erlang
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
hostedhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesnoString, 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.nono infosupport of XML interfaces availablenono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.yes infowith the option: eXtremeSQLnono
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript API.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJavaScript.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersyesyes infoby defining eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning / shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneActive Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication infoby means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication infoby means of eXtremeDB High Availability option
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storageACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies availableyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infoby using IndexedDB, SQL.JS or proprietary FileStorageyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users can be defined per database
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Specific characteristicseXtremeDB is an in-memory and/or persistent database system that offers an ultra-small...
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Competitive advantageseXtremeDB databases can be modeled relationally or as objects and can utilize SQL...
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Typical application scenariosIoT application across all markets: Industrial Control, Netcom, Telecom, Defense,...
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Key customersSchneider Electronics, F5 Networks, TNS, Boeing, Northrop Grumman, GoPro, ViaSat,...
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Market metricsWith hundreds of customers and over 30 million devices/applications using the product...
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Licensing and pricing modelsFor server use cases, there is a simple per-server license irrespective of the number...
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