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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. Drizzle vs. Pinecone vs. searchxml

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Name

Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

MySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.

A managed, cloud-native vector database

DBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

Native XML DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#92	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#390	Overall
	#7	Native XML DBMS
	#24	Search engines

Website

bigobject.io

www.pinecone.io

www.searchxml.net/category/products

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

www.searchxml.net/support/handouts

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Drizzle project, originally started by Brian Aker

Pinecone Systems, Inc

informationpartners gmbh

Initial release

2015

2008

2019

2015

Current release

7.2.4, September 2012

1.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

GNU GPL

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

String, Number, Boolean

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Java
PHP

Python

C++

most other programming languages supported via APIs

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

on the application server

Triggers

hooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

sychronisation to multiple collections

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

multiple readers, single writer

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Pluggable authentication mechanisms

e.g. LDAP, HTTP

Domain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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