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DBMS > BaseX vs. H2 vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. H2 vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Pinecone

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score1.64
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.h2database.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.pinecone.io
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmldocs.heavy.aidocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperBaseX GmbHThomas MuellerHEAVY.AI, Inc.Pinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release2007200520162019
Current release11.0, June 20242.2.220, July 20235.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++ and CUDA
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinuxhosted
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesyesString, 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
JavaAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsno
Triggersyes infovia eventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoRound robin
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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