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System Properties Comparison IBM Cloudant vs. MonetDB vs. Pinecone vs. SpaceTime

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NameIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA managed, cloud-native vector databaseSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSVector DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.monetdb.orgwww.pinecone.iowww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014MonetDB BVPinecone Systems, IncMireo
Initial release2010200420192020
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnoyesno
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Implementation languageErlangCC++
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesString, 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP/JSON APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
PythonC#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes, in SQL, C, Rno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding via remote tablesFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoOptimistic lockingyesyesyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes

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