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System Properties Comparison ITTIA vs. OpenSearch vs. Pinecone

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Name

Description

Edge Time Series DBMS with Real-Time Stream Processing

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

A managed, cloud-native vector database

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Search engine

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Vector DBMS

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	#23	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	3.23
Rank	#92	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Website

www.ittia.com

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.pinecone.io

Technical documentation

opensearch.org/docs/latest

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

Developer

ITTIA L.L.C.

Amazon Web Services

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Initial release

2007

2021

2019

Current release

8.7

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Data scheme

Fixed schema

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Float/Blob/Integer/String/Unicode/Date/Time/Timestamp/Interval

yes

String, Number, Boolean

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Database file passwords

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Licensing and pricing models

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