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System Properties Comparison BigchainDB vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Pinecone vs. SQL.JS

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NameBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA managed, cloud-native vector databasePort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
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Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.bigchaindb.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
www.pinecone.iosql.js.org
Technical documentationbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestdocs.heavy.aidocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.Pinecone Systems, IncAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2016201620192012
Current release5.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL v3Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languagePythonC++ and CUDAJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesString, Number, Booleanyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
RESTful HTTP APIJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
PythonJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoRound robinnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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