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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Manticore Search vs. Pinecone vs. Sequoiadb

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NameBaseX  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionLight-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.A managed, cloud-native vector databaseNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelNative XML DBMSSearch engineVector DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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Score1.84
Rank#135  Overall
#4  Native XML DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Websitebasex.orgmanticoresearch.comwww.pinecone.iowww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.basex.orgmanual.manticoresearch.comdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperBaseX GmbHManticore SoftwarePinecone Systems, IncSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release2007201720192013
Current release10.7, August 20236.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeFixed schemaschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateno infoXQuery supports typesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, BooleanString, Number, Booleanyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.Can index from XMLnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
RESTful HTTP APIproprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Python.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined functionsJavaScript
Triggersyes infovia eventsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSynchronous replication based on Galera librarySource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datamultiple readers, single writeryes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yesyes
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 levelsnosimple password-based access control

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