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System Properties Comparison Pinecone vs. PouchDB vs. STSdb vs. SwayDB vs. TigerGraph

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NamePinecone  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA managed, cloud-native vector databaseJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time
Primary database modelVector DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeKey-value storeGraph DBMS
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Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score0.04
Rank#387  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.pinecone.iopouchdb.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4swaydb.simer.auwww.tigergraph.com
Technical documentationdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewpouchdb.com/­guidesdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperPinecone Systems, IncApache Software FoundationSTS Soft SCSimer Plaha
Initial release20192012201120182017
Current release7.1.1, June 20194.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono
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Implementation languageJavaScriptC#ScalaC++
Server operating systemshostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)WindowsLinux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateString, Number, Booleannoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)noyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonononoSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
.NET Client APIGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesPythonJavaScriptC#
Java
Java
Kotlin
Scala
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptnonoyes
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnononoRole-based access control

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