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System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. Pinecone vs. Rockset vs. Sadas Engine vs. Sphinx

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NameKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA managed, cloud-native vector databaseA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.66
Rank#234  Overall
#107  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitewww.kinetica.comwww.pinecone.iorockset.comwww.sadasengine.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.kinetica.comdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewdocs.rockset.comwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperKineticaPinecone Systems, IncRocksetSADAS s.r.l.Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20122019201920062001
Current release7.1, August 20218.03.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercialcommercialcommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesnono
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Implementation languageC, C++C++C++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedhostedAIX
Linux
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesString, Number, Booleandynamic typingyesno
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 infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
PythonGo
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnonono
Triggersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangenonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic shardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes 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.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMnoyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles on table levelAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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