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System Properties Comparison Citus vs. Lovefield vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Pinecone

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmldocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperGoogleOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Pinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release2010201419842019
Current release8.1, December 20182.1.12, February 20177.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageCJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariHP Open VMShosted
Data schemeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesString, 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.yes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScriptPython
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.no
TriggersyesUsing read-only observers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyes, on a single node
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infousing MemoryDBnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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