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System Properties Comparison Heroic vs. Pinecone vs. searchxml vs. SingleStore vs. VelocityDB

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NameHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonsearchxml  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA managed, cloud-native vector databaseDBMS for structured and unstructured content wrapped with an application serverMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table typeA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSVector DBMSNative XML DBMS
Search engine
Relational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series 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
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#390  Overall
#7  Native XML DBMS
#24  Search engines
Score5.38
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.pinecone.iowww.searchxml.net/­category/­productswww.singlestore.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewwww.searchxml.net/­support/­handoutsdocs.singlestore.comvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperSpotifyPinecone Systems, Incinformationpartners gmbhSingleStore Inc.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release20142019201520132011
Current release1.08.5, January 20247.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial infofree developer edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++, GoC#
Server operating systemshostedWindowsLinux info64 bit version requiredAny that supports .NET
Data schemeschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesString, Number, Booleanyesyesyes
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.nonoyesnono
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononoyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysno
APIs and other access methodsHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
WebDAV
XQuery
XSLT
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
.Net
Supported programming languagesPythonC++ infomost other programming languages supported via APIsBash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoon the application serveryesno
TriggersnononoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infohash partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infosychronisation to multiple collectionsSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanomultiple readers, single writerACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDomain, group and role-based access control at the document level and for application servicesFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesBased on Windows Authentication
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HeroicPineconesearchxmlSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQLVelocityDB
Specific characteristicsSingleStore offers a fully-managed , distributed, highly-scalable SQL database designed...
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Competitive advantagesSingleStore’s competitive advantages include: Easy and Simplified Architecture with...
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Typical application scenariosDriving Fast Analytics: SingleStore delivers the fastest and most scalable reporting...
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Key customersIEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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Market metricsCustomers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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