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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. Pinecone

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

A managed, cloud-native vector database

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.18
Rank	#311	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.34
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

www.pinecone.io

Technical documentation

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

Developer

Axibase Corporation

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Initial release

2013

2019

Current release

15585

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

String, Number, Boolean

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

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