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DBMS > CrateDB vs. Pinecone vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison CrateDB vs. Pinecone vs. Transwarp Hippo

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NameCrateDB  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed Database based on LuceneA managed, cloud-native vector databaseCloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database modelDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Vector DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score0.66
Rank#223  Overall
#37  Document stores
#5  Spatial DBMS
#17  Search engines
#19  Time Series DBMS
#16  Vector DBMS
Score3.17
Rank#81  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#383  Overall
#22  Vector DBMS
Websitecratedb.comwww.pinecone.iowww.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentationcratedb.com/­docsdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperCratePinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release201320192023
Current release5.8.1, August 20241.0, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Sourcecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++
Server operating systemsAll Operating Systems, including Kubernetes with CrateDB Kubernetes Operator supporthostedLinux
macOS
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesString, Number, BooleanVector, Numeric and String
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 indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes, but no triggers and constraints, and PostgreSQL compatibilitynono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.NET
Erlang
Go infocommunity maintained client
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) infocommunity maintained client
Perl infocommunity maintained client
PHP
Python
R
Ruby infocommunity maintained client
Scala infocommunity maintained client
PythonC++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions (Javascript)no
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesConfigurable replication on table/partition-level
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Read-after-write consistency on record level
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infounique row identifiers can be used for implementing an optimistic concurrency control strategyno
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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