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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Cachelot.io vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Cachelot.io vs. HEAVY.AI vs. IBM Db2 Event Store vs. Pinecone

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 Event Store  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessIn-memory caching systemA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareDistributed Event Store optimized for Internet of Things use casesA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelWide column storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSEvent Store
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.31
Rank#297  Overall
#11  Wide column stores
Score0.04
Rank#388  Overall
#62  Key-value stores
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.27
Rank#309  Overall
#2  Event Stores
#28  Time Series DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storecachelot.iogithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.ibm.com/­products/­db2-event-storewww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestoredocs.heavy.aiwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2-event-storedocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperAlibabaHEAVY.AI, Inc.IBMPinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release20162015201620172019
Current release5.10, January 20222.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononoyes
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Implementation languageC++C++ and CUDAC and C++
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxLinux infoLinux, macOS, Windows for the developer additionhosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesString, 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesnononono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesyes infothrough the embedded Spark runtimeno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIMemcached protocolJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
ADO.NET
DB2 Connect
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes
Triggersnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding infoRound robinSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneMulti-source replicationActive-active shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesNo - written data is immutableyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesYes - Synchronous writes to local disk combined with replication and asynchronous writes in parquet format to permanent shared storageyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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