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DBMS > GBase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. ObjectBox vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison GBase vs. IBM Cloudant vs. ObjectBox vs. Pinecone

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NameGBase  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Vector DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.11
Rank#173  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score1.08
Rank#179  Overall
#6  Object oriented DBMS
#9  Vector DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#87  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.gbase.cnwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
www.pinecone.io
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.objectbox.iodocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.IBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014ObjectBox LimitedPinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release2004201020172019
Current releaseGBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c4.0 (May 2024)
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, Java, PythonErlangC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes, plus "flex" map-like typesString, 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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsnonono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIProprietary native APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseyes
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