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DBMS > Hyprcubd vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Pinecone vs. PostGIS vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Hyprcubd vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Pinecone vs. PostGIS vs. SwayDB

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NameHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionServerless Time Series DBMSSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA managed, cloud-native vector databaseSpatial extension of PostgreSQLAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSSearch engineVector DBMSSpatial DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitehyprcubd.com (offline)azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.pinecone.iopostgis.netswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperHyprcubd, Inc.MicrosoftPinecone Systems, IncSimer Plaha
Initial release2015201920052018
Current releaseV13.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesyesnono
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Implementation languageGoCScala
Server operating systemshostedhostedhosted
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyesString, Number, Booleanyesno
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 indexesnoyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsgRPC (https)RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
PythonJava
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datanoyesyesyesyes
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.nonononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controltoken accessyes infousing Azure authenticationyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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