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DBMS > EJDB vs. Pinecone vs. Spark SQL vs. SpatiaLite vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. Pinecone vs. Spark SQL vs. SpatiaLite vs. Transbase

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)A managed, cloud-native vector databaseSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingSpatial extension of SQLiteA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelDocument storeVector DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.pinecone.iospark.apache.org/­sqlwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mddocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperSoftmotionsPinecone Systems, IncApache Software FoundationAlessandro FurieriTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20122019201420081987
Current release3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20235.0.0, August 2020Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageCScalaC++C and C++
Server operating systemsserver-lesshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
server-lessFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idString, Number, Booleanyesyesyes
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 indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
PythonJava
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononoyes
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes, utilizing Spark Corenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possiblenoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnononofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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