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System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. Kuzu vs. Pinecone

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NameDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonKuzu  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSAn embeddable property Graph DBMS built for query speed and scalabilityA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSVector DBMS
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Score6.35
Rank#54  Overall
#32  Relational DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#367  Overall
#38  Graph DBMS
Score2.94
Rank#84  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Websiteduckdb.orgkuzudb.comwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationduckdb.org/­docsdocs.kuzudb.comdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperPinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release201820222019
Current release1.0.0, June 20240.4.2, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoMIT licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyes
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Implementation languageC++C++
Server operating systemsserver-lessserver-lesshosted
Data schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesString, 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnono
APIs and other access methodsArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
Cypher Query Language
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Python
Rust
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
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.yesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnono

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