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DBMS > IRONdb vs. Pinecone vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison IRONdb vs. Pinecone vs. Transwarp Hippo

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NameIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA managed, cloud-native vector databaseCloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSVector DBMSVector DBMS
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Score3.17
Rank#81  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score0.01
Rank#383  Overall
#22  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.pinecone.iowww.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperCirconus LLC.Pinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release201720192023
Current releaseV0.10.20, January 20181.0, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infotext, numeric, histogramsString, Number, BooleanVector, Numeric and String
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 indexesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nono
APIs and other access methodsHTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
PythonC++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in Luano
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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