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System Properties Comparison Kinetica vs. Pinecone vs. XTDB

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NameKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsA managed, cloud-native vector databaseA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.kinetica.comwww.pinecone.iogithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.kinetica.comdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperKineticaPinecone Systems, IncJuxt Ltd.
Initial release201220192019
Current release7.1, August 20211.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, C++Clojure
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesString, Number, Booleanyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
PythonClojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsno
Triggersyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and roles on table level

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