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System Properties Comparison Apache Cassandra vs. OushuDB vs. Pinecone

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NameApache Cassandra  Xexclude from comparisonOushuDB  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB infoOptimized for write accessA data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learningA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelWide column storeRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS infostarting with release V5
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Score108.21
Rank#11  Overall
#1  Wide column stores
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#154  Relational DBMS
Score3.34
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitecassandra.apache.orgwww.oushu.com/­product/­oushuDBwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationcassandra.apache.org/­doc/­latestwww.oushu.com/­documentationdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top level project, originally developped by FacebookOushuPinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release20082019
Current release5.0-rc1, July 20244.0.1, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyes
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Implementation languageJava
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linuxhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesString, 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.nono
Secondary indexesrestricted infoonly equality queries, not always the best performing solutionyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)Full-featured ANSI SQL supportno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoCQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes
Triggersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"yes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possible
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesHadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectKerberos, SSL and role based access
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