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DBMS > Kingbase vs. Pinecone vs. STSdb vs. TempoIQ

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

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NameKingbase  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.
DescriptionAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.A 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
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitewww.kingbase.com.cnwww.pinecone.iogithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4tempoiq.com (offline)
Technical documentationdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.Pinecone Systems, IncSTS Soft SCTempoIQ
Initial release1999201920112012
Current releaseV8.0, August 20214.0.8, 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 languageC and JavaC#
Server operating systemsLinux
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLStandard with numerous extensionsnonono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client APIHTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
PythonC#
Java
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesnoyes infoRealtime Alerts
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnone
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 datayesyesyesyes
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnosimple authentication-based access control

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