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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. LMDB vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Pinecone

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonLMDB  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  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 CouchDBA high performant, light-weight, embedded key-value database libraryA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score2.09
Rank#121  Overall
#20  Key-value stores
Score3.05
Rank#97  Overall
#17  Document stores
#16  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.symas.com/­symas-embedded-database-lmdbwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroiccloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.lmdb.tech/­docdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmldocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperSpotifyIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014SymasOraclePinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release20142010201120112019
Current release0.9.32, January 202424.1, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageJavaErlangCJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Unix
Windows
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
hosted
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnooptionalString, 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.nonononono
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Nim
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Swift
Tcl
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes infooff heap cacheno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoAccess rights for users and roles

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