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DBMS > Pinecone vs. Postgres-XL vs. RDFox vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Pinecone vs. Postgres-XL vs. RDFox vs. SwayDB

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NamePinecone  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonRDFox  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA managed, cloud-native vector databaseBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresHigh performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engineAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelVector DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
RDF store
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Trend Chart
Score3.02
Rank#87  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#260  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#305  Overall
#25  Graph DBMS
#15  RDF stores
Score0.00
Rank#384  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitewww.pinecone.iowww.postgres-xl.orgwww.oxfordsemantic.techswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdocs.oxfordsemantic.tech
DeveloperPinecone Systems, IncOxford Semantic TechnologiesSimer Plaha
Initial release20192014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20172018
Current release10 R1, October 20186.0, Septermber 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageCC++Scala
Server operating systemshostedLinux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateString, Number, Booleanyesyesno
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
Secondary indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1
Supported programming languagesPython.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
Java
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesreplication via a shared file systemnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setupsImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoMVCCACIDAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRoles, resources, and access typesno

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