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DBMS > BoltDB vs. etcd vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison BoltDB vs. etcd vs. Pinecone

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NameBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded key-value store for Go.A distributed reliable key-value storeA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelKey-value storeKey-value storeVector DBMS
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Score0.58
Rank#235  Overall
#33  Key-value stores
Score7.05
Rank#50  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score3.34
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­boltdb/­boltetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
www.pinecone.io
Technical documentationetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
docs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperPinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release20132019
Current release3.4, August 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoGo
Server operating systemsBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenonoString, 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.nonono
Secondary indexesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonono
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JSON over HTTP
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
Triggersnoyes, watching key changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnono

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