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DBMS > Linter vs. Lovefield vs. Manticore Search vs. Pinecone

System Properties Comparison Linter vs. Lovefield vs. Manticore Search vs. Pinecone

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NameLinter  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRDBMS for high security requirementsEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.A managed, cloud-native vector database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.12
Rank#350  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websitelinter.rugoogle.github.io/­lovefieldmanticoresearch.comwww.pinecone.io
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdmanual.manticoresearch.comdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
Developerrelex.ruGoogleManticore SoftwarePinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release1990201420172019
Current release2.1.12, February 20176.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++JavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsAIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafariFreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyesFixed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, BooleanString, 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.nonoCan index from XMLno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
JavaScriptElixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLnouser defined functions
TriggersyesUsing read-only observersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationnoneSynchronous replication based on Galera library
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infousing MemoryDBno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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