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DBMS > Databricks vs. Pinecone vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Databricks vs. Pinecone vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.A managed, cloud-native vector databaseA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMSTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score99.29
Rank#12  Overall
#2  Document stores
#8  Relational DBMS
Score3.34
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score1.34
Rank#149  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.databricks.comwww.pinecone.iovictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationdocs.databricks.comdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperDatabricksPinecone Systems, IncVictoriaMetrics
Initial release201320192018
Current releasev1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesno
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Implementation languageGo
Server operating systemshostedhostedFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateString, 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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLwith Databricks SQLnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIGraphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languagesPython
R
Scala
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesno
Triggersno
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno
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

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