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DBMS > Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. KeyDB vs. Kingbase vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. KeyDB vs. Kingbase vs. Pinecone

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBAn ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.A managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeRelational DBMSVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.51
Rank#255  Overall
#21  Time Series DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.71
Rank#226  Overall
#33  Key-value stores
Score0.45
Rank#262  Overall
#123  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
www.kingbase.com.cnwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroiccloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.keydb.devdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperSpotifyIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.Pinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release20142010201919992019
Current releaseV8.0, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoBSD-3commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC++C and Java
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
Windows
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnopartial 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.nononoyesno
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoStandard with numerous extensionsno
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIProprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
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
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptLuauser defined functions
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes 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.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasesimple password-based access control and ACLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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