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DBMS > Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Pinecone vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Lovefield vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Pinecone vs. Yaacomo

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NameLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA managed, cloud-native vector databaseOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score0.29
Rank#293  Overall
#133  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Websitegoogle.github.io/­lovefieldazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.pinecone.ioyaacomo.com
Technical documentationgithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mdlearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperGoogleMicrosoftPinecone Systems, IncQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release2014201520192009
Current release2.1.12, February 2017V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaScript
Server operating systemsserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, SafarihostedhostedAndroid
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesString, Number, Booleanyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesJavaScriptC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
TriggersUsing read-only observersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infousing MemoryDBnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousing Azure authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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