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DBMS > Ingres vs. Pinecone vs. STSdb vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. Pinecone vs. STSdb vs. TempoIQ

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NameIngres  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionWell established RDBMSA managed, cloud-native vector databaseKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
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Score3.80
Rank#82  Overall
#44  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitewww.actian.com/­databases/­ingreswww.pinecone.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4tempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationdocs.actian.com/­ingresdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperActian CorporationPinecone Systems, IncSTS Soft SCTempoIQ
Initial release1974 infooriginally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s201920112012
Current release11.2, May 20224.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC#
Server operating systemsAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
hostedWindows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesString, Number, Booleanyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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 availablenono
Secondary indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnonono
APIs and other access methods.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesPythonC#
Java
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesnono
Triggersyesnoyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning infoIngres Star to access multiple databases simultaneouslynone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesIngres Replicatornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCCyesyesyes
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 controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnosimple authentication-based access control

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