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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Apache Doris vs. Citus vs. Pinecone

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonApache Doris  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSAn MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocolScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.02
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#247  Overall
#113  Relational DBMS
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websitealtibase.comdoris.apache.org
github.com/­apache/­doris
www.citusdata.comwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsgithub.com/­apache/­doris/­wikidocs.citusdata.comdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperAltibaseApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from BaiduPinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release1999201720102019
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20231.2.2, February 20238.1, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageC++JavaC
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
LinuxLinuxhosted
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesString, 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.nonoyes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92yesyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
MySQL client
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Java.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsuser defined functionsuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensions
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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