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DBMS > BigObject vs. GBase vs. Pinecone vs. SwayDB

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

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NameBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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.A managed, cloud-native vector databaseAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSVector DBMSKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitebigobject.iowww.gbase.cnwww.pinecone.ioswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.bigobject.iodocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperBigObject, Inc.General Data Technology Co., Ltd.Pinecone Systems, IncSimer Plaha
Initial release2015200420192018
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree community edition availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonScala
Server operating systemsLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linuxhosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesString, Number, Booleanno
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 extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#PythonJava
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuauser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDAtomic execution of operations
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.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesno

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