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System Properties Comparison Dragonfly vs. MonetDB vs. Pinecone

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NameDragonfly  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA drop-in Redis replacement that scales vertically to support millions of operations per second and terabyte sized workloads, all on a single instanceA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.44
Rank#255  Overall
#38  Key-value stores
Score1.72
Rank#135  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#87  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­dragonflydb/­dragonfly
www.dragonflydb.io
www.monetdb.orgwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationwww.dragonflydb.io/­docswww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperDragonflyDB team and community contributorsMonetDB BVPinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release202320042019
Current release1.0, March 2023Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoBSL 1.1Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted
Data schemescheme-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datestrings, hashes, lists, sets, sorted sets, bit arraysyesString, 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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocolJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Clojure
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Tcl
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayes, in SQL, C, R
Triggerspublish/subscribe channels provide some trigger functionalityyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic execution of command blocks and scriptsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, strict serializability by the serveryesyes
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlPassword-based authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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