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DBMS > GeoMesa vs. KeyDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison GeoMesa vs. KeyDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Pinecone

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NameGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelSpatial DBMSKey-value storeSearch engineVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.70
Rank#229  Overall
#32  Key-value stores
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmldocs.keydb.devlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperCCRi and othersEQ Alpha Technology Ltd.MicrosoftPinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release2014201920152019
Current release5.0.0, May 2024V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoBSD-3commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageScalaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedhosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyesString, 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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoLuano
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesdepending on storage layerShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemdepending on storage layerEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.depending on storage layeryesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagesimple password-based access control and ACLyes infousing Azure authentication

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