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System Properties Comparison Altibase vs. Badger vs. etcd vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Pinecone

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NameAltibase  Xexclude from comparisonBadger  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn enterprise grade, high-performance RDBMSAn embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.A distributed reliable key-value storeA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.07
Rank#186  Overall
#87  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#331  Overall
#49  Key-value stores
Score7.25
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websitealtibase.comgithub.com/­dgraph-io/­badgeretcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
www.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriswww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­ALTIBASE/­Documents/­tree/­master/­Manualsgodoc.org/­github.com/­dgraph-io/­badgeretcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
docs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clsdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperAltibaseDGraph LabsInterSystemsPinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release1999201720182019
Current releasev7.3, 2023, August 20233.4, August 20192023.3, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infoOpen source edition discontinued with March 2023Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageC++GoGo
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freedepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyesString, 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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL-92nonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
gRPC
JSON over HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
Go.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresstored procedures and stored functionsnonoyes
Triggersyesnoyes, watching key changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoyes
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