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System Properties Comparison JaguarDB vs. NuoDB vs. Pinecone vs. Sphinx

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NameJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsA managed, cloud-native vector databaseOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSVector DBMSSearch engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.06
Rank#381  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
#14  Vector DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.jaguardb.comwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasewww.pinecone.iosphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmldoc.nuodb.comdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperDataJaguar, Inc.Dassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Pinecone Systems, IncSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2015201320192001
Current release3.3 July 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3.0commercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxhosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
hostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesString, Number, Booleanno
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 indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersyesnoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
PythonC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava, SQLno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtenSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replicationyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infotunable commit protocolno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTemporary tableno
User concepts infoAccess controlrights management via user accountsStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Usersno

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