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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. Manticore Search vs. Pinecone vs. RDF4J

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Name

Description

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

A managed, cloud-native vector database

RDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

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Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	0.22
Rank	#312	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	3.16
Rank	#95	Overall
	#2	Vector DBMS

Score	0.69
Rank	#230	Overall
	#9	RDF stores

Website

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

manual.manticoresearch.com

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

rdf4j.org/documentation

Developer

Event Store Limited

Manticore Software

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Since 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.

Initial release

2012

2017

2019

2004

Current release

21.2, February 2021

6.0, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Open Source

Eclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Data scheme

Fixed schema

yes

RDF Schemas

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

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.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

RESTful HTTP API

Java API
RIO

RDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL

Sesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL

Supported programming languages

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

Python

Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

ACID

Isolation support depends on the API used

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

in-memory storage is supported as well

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

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