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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Pinecone vs. searchxml

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  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 managed, cloud-native vector databaseDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application server
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeVector DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.13
Rank#335  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#95  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score3.02
Rank#87  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.pinecone.iowww.searchxml.net/­category/­products
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroiccloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handouts
DeveloperSpotifyIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Pinecone Systems, Incinformationpartners gmbh
Initial release2014201020192015
Current release1.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaErlangC++
Server operating systemshostedhostedWindows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoString, 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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononono
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
PythonC++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIs
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes infoon the application server
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infosychronisation to multiple collections
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a document possiblemultiple readers, single writer
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
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.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application services

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