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DBMS > Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Pinecone vs. Solr vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Pinecone vs. Solr vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsA managed, cloud-native vector databaseA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache LuceneA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelWide column storeVector DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score41.02
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Score1.23
Rank#172  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Websiteazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tableswww.pinecone.iosolr.apache.orgvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewsolr.apache.org/­resources.htmldocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperMicrosoftPinecone Systems, IncApache Software FoundationVictoriaMetrics
Initial release2012201920062018
Current release9.6.1, May 2024v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaGo
Server operating systemshostedhostedAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeschema-freeyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesString, Number, Booleanyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesnoyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSolr Parallel SQL Interfaceno
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languages.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Python.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava pluginsno
Triggersnoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.yesSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduceno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataoptimistic lockingoptimistic lockingno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesyes

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