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DBMS > BaseX vs. Ingres vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Ingres vs. Pinecone

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonIngres  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Well established RDBMSA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitebasex.orgwww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperBaseX GmbHActian CorporationPinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release20071974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2019
Current release11.0, June 202411.2, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyes
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Implementation languageJavaC
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesyesString, 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.no infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availableno
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes
Triggersyes infovia eventsyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneIngres Replicator
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writerACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyes
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 controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levelsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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