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DBMS > HBase vs. Pinecone vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison HBase vs. Pinecone vs. SQL.JS

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NameHBase  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableA managed, cloud-native vector databasePort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelWide column storeVector DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitehbase.apache.orgwww.pinecone.iosql.js.org
Technical documentationhbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetPinecone Systems, IncAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release200820192012
Current release2.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
hostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-free, schema definition possibleyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateoptions to bring your own types, AVROString, Number, Booleanyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
RESTful HTTP APIJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
PythonJavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in Javano
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACno

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