DBMS > DataFS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. MongoDB vs. Pinecone vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. IBM Cloudant vs. MongoDB vs. Pinecone vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

One of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

A managed, cloud-native vector database

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Spatial DBMS
Search engine

integrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS

Time Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS

currently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only

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Trend Chart

Score	0.02
Rank	#369	Overall
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.85
Rank	#95	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	410.24
Rank	#5	Overall
	#1	Document stores

Score	3.02
Rank	#87	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#318	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

newdatabase.com

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

www.mongodb.com

www.pinecone.io

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

www.mongodb.com/docs/manual

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Mobiland AG

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

MongoDB, Inc

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2018

2010

2009

2019

2015

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

7.0.5, January 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

MongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

MongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)

yes

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

schema-free

Although schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatial

String, Number, Boolean

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

Read-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL Interface

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

GraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

Actionscript

unofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure

unofficial driver
ColdFusion

unofficial driver
D

unofficial driver
Dart

unofficial driver
Delphi

unofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy

unofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp

unofficial driver
Lua

unofficial driver
MatLab

unofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell

unofficial driver
Prolog

unofficial driver
Python
R

unofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial driver
Swift

Python

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

JavaScript

Erlang

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

in MongoDB Atlas only

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

Partitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

can be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency

default behaviour

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

typically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possible

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a document possible

Multi-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional, enabled by default

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

In-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2

User concepts

Access control

Windows-Profile

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Access rights for users and roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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