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System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. Pinecone vs. Splice Machine

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NameInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceA managed, cloud-native vector databaseOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelKey-value storeVector DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.08
Rank#365  Overall
#55  Key-value stores
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websiteboilerbay.comwww.pinecone.iosplicemachine.com
Technical documentationboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperBoiler Bay Inc.Pinecone Systems, IncSplice Machine
Initial release200220192014
Current release4.03.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysString, 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.nono
Secondary indexesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaPythonC#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoJava
Triggersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
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 controlnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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