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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. HBase vs. Pinecone

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelDocument storeWide column storeVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.30
Rank#302  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score31.60
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score3.33
Rank#98  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbhbase.apache.orgwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperSoftmotionsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetPinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release201220082019
Current release2.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoApache version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyes
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Implementation languageCJava
Server operating systemsserver-lessLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free, schema definition possible
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idoptions to bring your own types, AVROString, 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 indexesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonono
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoCoprocessors in Java
Triggersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyes
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 controlnoAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

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