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DBMS > Pinecone vs. PostGIS vs. Sequoiadb vs. SpatiaLite vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Pinecone vs. PostGIS vs. Sequoiadb vs. SpatiaLite vs. TimescaleDB

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NamePinecone  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA managed, cloud-native vector databaseSpatial extension of PostgreSQLNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLSpatial extension of SQLiteA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelVector DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.pinecone.iopostgis.netwww.sequoiadb.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexwww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewpostgis.net/­documentationwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmldocs.timescale.com
DeveloperPinecone Systems, IncSequoiadb Ltd.Alessandro FurieriTimescale
Initial release20192005201320082017
Current release3.4.2, February 20245.0.0, August 20202.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageCC++C++C
Server operating systemshostedLinuxserver-lessLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateString, Number, Booleanyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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.noyesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query languageyesyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIproprietary protocol using JSONADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesPython.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsJavaScriptnouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLShardingnoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replicationnoneSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDDocument is locked during a transactionACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLsimple password-based access controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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