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NameDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptA managed, cloud-native vector databaseM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelGraph DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMS
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Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#383  Overall
#43  Time Series DBMS
Websitedgraph.iogoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.pinecone.iogithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdgraph.io/­docsgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.GooglePinecone Systems, IncSiteWhere
Initial release2016201420192010
Current release2.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageGoJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafarihostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyespredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesString, Number, Booleanyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnono
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
Supported programming languagesC#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptPython
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
TriggersnoUsing read-only observers
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyesnoneSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via Raftnoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
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 integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
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.yes infousing MemoryDBnono
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

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