DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. MaxDB vs. Pinecone vs. Snowflake

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. MaxDB vs. Pinecone vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

A managed, cloud-native vector database

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

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Website

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2015

1984

2019

2014

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

String, Number, Boolean

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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