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System Properties Comparison LevelDB vs. Pinecone vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

Embeddable fast key-value storage library that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values

A managed, cloud-native vector database

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Key-value store

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.35
Rank	#111	Overall
	#19	Key-value stores

Score	3.16
Rank	#95	Overall
	#2	Vector DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/google/leveldb

www.pinecone.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

github.com/google/leveldb/blob/main/doc/index.md

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Google

Pinecone Systems, Inc

SAP

Initial release

2011

2019

2010

Current release

1.23, February 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Illumos
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

String, Number, Boolean

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C++
Go
Java

3rd party binding
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party binding
Python

3rd party binding

Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with automatic compression on writes

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

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