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DBMS > Pinecone vs. PostGIS vs. StarRocks

System Properties Comparison Pinecone vs. PostGIS vs. StarRocks

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NamePinecone  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA managed, cloud-native vector databaseSpatial extension of PostgreSQLAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache Doris
Primary database modelVector DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score1.04
Rank#189  Overall
#88  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.pinecone.iopostgis.netwww.starrocks.io
Technical documentationdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewpostgis.net/­documentationdocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_intro
DeveloperPinecone Systems, IncThe Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023
Initial release201920052020
Current release3.4.2, February 20242.5.3, March 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageCC++, Java
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Data schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateString, Number, Booleanyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
MySQL protocol
Supported programming languagesPythonJava
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsuser defined functions
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLhorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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