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System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. OpenSearch vs. Pinecone vs. SpaceTime

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NamemSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneA managed, cloud-native vector databaseSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineVector DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score1.26
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score16.31
Rank#36  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score3.02
Rank#87  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Websitehughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlgithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
www.pinecone.iowww.mireo.com/­spacetime
Technical documentationopensearch.org/­docs/­latestdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overview
DeveloperHughes TechnologiesAmazon Web ServicesPinecone Systems, IncMireo
Initial release1994202120192020
Current release4.4, October 20212.5.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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STACKIT OpenSearch offers OpenSearch in a managed version in enterprise grade, 100% GDPR-compliant, for a wide range of applications like analytics, website search, offering scalability and fast data access.
Implementation languageCJavaC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
Data schemeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesString, 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query languagenoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
PythonC#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesno
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingFixed-grid hypercubes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesReal-time block device replication (DRBD)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datanoyesyesyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes
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mSQL infoMini SQLOpenSearchPineconeSpaceTime
Specific characteristicsOpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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Competitive advantagesDistributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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Typical application scenariosThe OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Licensing and pricing modelsThe OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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