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System Properties Comparison AlaSQL vs. KairosDB vs. MonetDB vs. Pinecone vs. Trafodion

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NameAlaSQL  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionJavaScript DBMS libraryDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2A relational database management system that stores data in columnsA managed, cloud-native vector databaseTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#260  Overall
#40  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websitealasql.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbwww.monetdb.orgwww.pinecone.iotrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationgithub.com/­AlaSQL/­alasqlkairosdb.github.iowww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewtrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperAndrey Gershun & Mathias R. WulffMonetDB BVPinecone Systems, IncApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20142013200420192014
Current release1.2.2, November 2018Dec2023 (11.49), December 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT-LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptJavaCC++, Java
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesString, Number, Booleanyes
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 indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to SQL99, but no user access control, stored procedures and host language bindings.noyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJavaScript APIGraphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptJava
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
PythonAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes, in SQL, C, RJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on CassandraSharding via remote tablesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoonly for local storage and DOM-storagenoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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