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System Properties Comparison Apache Kylin vs. Kinetica vs. Pinecone vs. Transbase

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NameApache Kylin  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed analytics engine for big data, providing a SQL interface and multi-dimensional analysis (OLAP) and leveraging the Hadoop stackFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA managed, cloud-native vector databaseA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.18
Rank#172  Overall
#79  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitekylin.apache.orgwww.kinetica.comwww.pinecone.iowww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationkylin.apache.org/­docsdocs.kinetica.comdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation, originally contributed from eBay IncKineticaPinecone Systems, IncTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release2015201220191987
Current release3.1.0, July 20207.1, August 2021Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxhostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesString, Number, Booleanyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)SQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
PythonC
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes
Triggersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyes
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.noyes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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