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DBMS > Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Cubrid vs. Pinecone vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud Table Store vs. Cubrid vs. Pinecone vs. Sphinx

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NameAlibaba Cloud Table Store  Xexclude from comparisonCubrid  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA fully managed Wide Column Store for large quantities of semi-structured data with real-time accessCUBRID is an open-source SQL-based relational database management system with object extensions for OLTPA managed, cloud-native vector databaseOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSVector DBMSSearch engine
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Score0.26
Rank#301  Overall
#12  Wide column stores
Score1.20
Rank#169  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.alibabacloud.com/­product/­table-storecubrid.com (korean)
cubrid.org (english)
www.pinecone.iosphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.alibabacloud.com/­help/­en/­tablestorecubrid.org/­manualsdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperAlibabaCUBRID Corporation, CUBRID FoundationPinecone Systems, IncSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2016200820192001
Current release11.0, January 20213.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageC, C++, JavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesString, Number, Booleanno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesJava
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
PythonC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored Proceduresno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-row operationsACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on subaccounts and tokensfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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