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DBMS > Heroic vs. LokiJS vs. Pinecone vs. Sequoiadb

System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. LokiJS vs. Pinecone vs. Sequoiadb

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchIn-memory JavaScript DBMSA managed, cloud-native vector databaseNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSDocument storeVector DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
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Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSwww.pinecone.iowww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroictechfort.github.io/­LokiJSdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperSpotifyPinecone Systems, IncSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release2014201420192013
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoString, Number, Booleanyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JavaScript APIRESTful HTTP APIproprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptPython.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptJavaScript
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
noneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnosimple password-based access control

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