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System Properties Comparison ObjectBox vs. Pinecone vs. TempoIQ vs. Trafodion

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectors

A managed, cloud-native vector database

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS

Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.08
Rank	#179	Overall
	#6	Object oriented DBMS
	#9	Vector DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#87	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Website

github.com/objectbox
objectbox.io

www.pinecone.io

tempoiq.com (offline)

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.objectbox.io

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

ObjectBox Limited

Pinecone Systems, Inc

TempoIQ

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2017

2019

2012

2014

Current release

4.0 (May 2024)

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Bindings are released under Apache 2.0

Apache License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes, plus "flex" map-like types

String, Number, Boolean

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift

Python

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Data sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offline

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

yes

simple authentication-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

News

MongoDB Realm & Device Sync alternatives – ObjectBox
17 September 2024

Local AI – what it is and why we need it
11 September 2024

First on-device Vector Database (aka Semantic Index) for iOS
24 July 2024

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) with vector databases: Expanding AI Capabilities
18 June 2024

The on-device Vector Database for Android and Java
29 May 2024

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Recent citations in the news

Pinecone serverless goes multicloud as vector database market heats up
27 August 2024, VentureBeat

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12 September 2024, InfoWorld

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27 August 2024, TechTarget

Pinecone launches its serverless vector database out of preview
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