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DBMS > chDB vs. Lovefield vs. Pinecone vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison chDB vs. Lovefield vs. Pinecone vs. TerarkDB

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NamechDB  Xexclude from comparisonLovefield  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouseEmbeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScriptA managed, cloud-native vector databaseA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSVector DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
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Score0.07
Rank#376  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#286  Overall
#131  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­chdb-io/­chdbgoogle.github.io/­lovefieldwww.pinecone.iogithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdoc.chdb.iogithub.com/­google/­lovefield/­blob/­master/­docs/­spec_index.mddocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperGooglePinecone Systems, IncByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2023201420192016
Current release2.1.12, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC++
Server operating systemsserver-lessserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js) infotested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safarihosted
Data schemeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesString, Number, Booleanno
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLClose to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)SQL-like query language infovia JavaScript builder patternnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesBun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
JavaScriptPythonC++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
TriggersUsing read-only observersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Databaseyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infousing MemoryDBnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnono

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