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DBMS > Blueflood vs. HyperSQL vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. HyperSQL vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Pinecone

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandraMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.13
Rank#346  Overall
#33  Time Series DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websiteblueflood.iohsqldb.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikihsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperRackspaceIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Pinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release2013200120102019
Current release2.7.2, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infobased on BSD licensecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaErlang
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modeshostedhosted
Data schemepredefined schemeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoString, 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.nononono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTHTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava, SQLView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandranoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandranoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
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.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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