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DBMS > Google Cloud Datastore vs. Pinecone vs. Teradata vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Google Cloud Datastore vs. Pinecone vs. Teradata vs. VelocityDB

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NameGoogle Cloud Datastore  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAutomatically scaling NoSQL Database as a Service (DBaaS) on the Google Cloud PlatformA managed, cloud-native vector databaseA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelDocument storeVector DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.47
Rank#76  Overall
#12  Document stores
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score45.33
Rank#21  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitecloud.google.com/­datastorewww.pinecone.iowww.teradata.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationcloud.google.com/­datastore/­docsdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewdocs.teradata.comvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperGooglePinecone Systems, IncTeradataVelocityDB Inc
Initial release2008201919842011
Current releaseTeradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 20197.x
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC#
Server operating systemshostedhostedhosted
Linux
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes, details hereString, Number, Booleanyesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash indexyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (GQL)noyes infoSQL 2016 + extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (using protocol buffers) API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
.Net
Supported programming languages.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
PythonC
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresusing Google App Engineyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallelno
TriggersCallbacks using the Google Apps EngineyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoHashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication using PaxosMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes infousing Google Cloud Dataflownonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on type of query and configuration infoStrong Consistency is default for entity lookups and queries within an Entity Group (but can instead be made eventually consistent). Other queries are always eventual consistent.Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infovia ReferenceProperties or Ancestor pathsyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoSerializable Isolation within Transactions, Read Committed outside of TransactionsACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management (IAM)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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