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DBMS > Geode vs. Pinecone vs. Postgres-XL vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison Geode vs. Pinecone vs. Postgres-XL vs. PouchDB

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NameGeode  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesA managed, cloud-native vector databaseBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelKey-value storeVector DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.51
Rank#147  Overall
#25  Key-value stores
Score3.02
Rank#87  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#260  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score2.18
Rank#114  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitegeode.apache.orgwww.pinecone.iowww.postgres-xl.orgpouchdb.com
Technical documentationgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Pinecone Systems, IncApache Software Foundation
Initial release200220192014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2012
Current release1.1, February 201710 R1, October 20187.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfirecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaCJavaScript
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredhostedLinux
macOS
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesString, Number, Booleanyesno
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.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (OQL)noyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsJava Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
Python.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyes infoCache Event Listenersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes, on a single nodeACID infoMVCCno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights per client and object definablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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