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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. GBase vs. Geode vs. Pinecone

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Geode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSKey-value storeVector DBMS
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websitebigobject.iowww.gbase.cngeode.apache.orgwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iogeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.General Data Technology Co., Ltd.Originally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Pinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release2015200420022019
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c1.1, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonJava
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
LinuxAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredhosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesString, 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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language (OQL)no
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuauser defined functionsuser defined functions
Triggersnoyesyes infoCache Event Listeners
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDyes, on a single node
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyesyes
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 controlnoyesAccess rights per client and object definable

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