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System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. NuoDB vs. Pinecone vs. TerarkDB vs. TypeDB

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NameIngres  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionWell established RDBMSNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsA managed, cloud-native vector databaseA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
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Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Score0.70
Rank#230  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#106  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasewww.pinecone.iogithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbtypedb.com
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingresdoc.nuodb.comdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKctypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperActian CorporationDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Pinecone Systems, IncByteDance, originally TerarkVaticle
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s2013201920162016
Current release11.2, May 20222.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infolimited edition freecommercialcommercial inforestricted open source version availableOpen Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageCC++C++Java
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesString, Number, Booleannoyes
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.no infobut tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files availablenononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyesnonono
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIC++ API
Java API
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
PythonC++
Java
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesJava, SQLnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslydata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtennoneSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres Replicatoryes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBnoneMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infotunable commit protocolnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCCyes infoMVCCyesyesyes
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.noyes infoTemporary tablenoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersnoyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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IngresNuoDBPineconeTerarkDBTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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