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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Pinecone vs. SpaceTime

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Name

Description

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

A managed, cloud-native vector database

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Primary database model

Document store

Vector DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.31
Rank	#296	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Score	3.23
Rank	#92	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Website

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.pinecone.io

www.mireo.com/spacetime

Technical documentation

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

Developer

Softmotions

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Mireo

Initial release

2012

2019

2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

String, Number, Boolean

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

APIs and other access methods

in-process shared library

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

Python

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

yes

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