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System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. Pinecone vs. Qdrant vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NameMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA managed, cloud-native vector databaseA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSVector DBMSMultivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#98  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Websitewww.monetdb.orgwww.pinecone.iogithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
www.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewqdrant.tech/­documentationdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperMonetDB BVPinecone Systems, IncQdrantRocket Software
Initial release2004201920211985
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCRustC
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesString, Number, BooleanNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanoptional
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIgRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
Java API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Python.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in SQL, C, Ryes
Triggersyesyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding via remote tablesShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusCollection-level replicationSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoconfigurable
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardKey-based authenticationAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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