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DBMS > LeanXcale vs. Netezza vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison LeanXcale vs. Netezza vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. Pinecone

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NameLeanXcale  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilitiesData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsWidely used in-process key-value storeA managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.36
Rank#280  Overall
#40  Key-value stores
#129  Relational DBMS
Score8.59
Rank#45  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.leanxcale.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzawww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmldocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperLeanXcaleIBMOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OraclePinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release2015200019942019
Current release18.1.40, May 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infocommercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)
Server operating systemsLinux infoincluded in applianceAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoString, Number, Boolean
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.yes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionno
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infothrough Apache Derbyyesyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
Java
Scala
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesno
Triggersnoyes infoonly for the SQL API
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
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 dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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.yesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptno

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