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DBMS > Pinecone vs. Postgres-XL vs. RDF4J vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Pinecone vs. Postgres-XL vs. RDF4J vs. Rockset

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NamePinecone  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA managed, cloud-native vector databaseBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelVector DBMSRelational DBMSRDF storeDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engine
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Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitewww.pinecone.iowww.postgres-xl.orgrdf4j.orgrockset.com
Technical documentationdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationrdf4j.org/­documentationdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperPinecone Systems, IncSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.Rockset
Initial release20192014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20042019
Current release10 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonoyes
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Implementation languageCJavaC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF Schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateString, Number, Booleanyesyesdynamic typing
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.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Java API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesPython.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
PHP
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyesno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnoneAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoMVCCACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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