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System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. Pinecone vs. Postgres-XL

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NameMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA managed, cloud-native vector databaseBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
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Score2.42
Rank#139  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score2.12
Rank#150  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.83
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.monetdb.orgwww.pinecone.iowww.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperMonetDB BVPinecone Systems, Inc
Initial release200420192014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current releaseJul2021-SP2, July 202110 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesno
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Implementation languageCC
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesString, 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.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnoyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Python.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in SQL, C, Ruser defined functions
Triggersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding via remote tableshorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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