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DBMS > EXASOL vs. Pinecone vs. Quasardb vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. Pinecone vs. Quasardb vs. TimesTen

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NameEXASOL  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionHigh-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.A managed, cloud-native vector databaseDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.76
Rank#139  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score1.36
Rank#161  Overall
#75  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.exasol.comwww.pinecone.ioquasar.aiwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationwww.exasol.com/­resourcesdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewdoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperExasolPinecone Systems, IncquasardbOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release2000201920091998
Current release3.14.1, January 202411 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageC++
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesString, Number, Booleanyes infointeger and binaryyes
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 indexesyesyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methods.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesJava
Lua
Python
R
Python.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoPL/SQL
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infoHadoop integrationnowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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