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System Properties Comparison Pinecone vs. Prometheus vs. Qdrant vs. XTDB

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NamePinecone  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA managed, cloud-native vector databaseOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelVector DBMSTime Series DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score1.28
Rank#167  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.pinecone.ioprometheus.iogithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
github.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewprometheus.io/­docsqdrant.tech/­documentationwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperPinecone Systems, IncQdrantJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2019201520212019
Current release1.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageGoRustClojure
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateString, Number, BooleanNumeric data onlyNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nono infoImport of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesnoyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-textyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnononolimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIRESTful HTTP/JSON APIgRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesPython.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoby FederationCollection-level replicationyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoKey-based authentication

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