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System Properties Comparison Pinecone vs. Qdrant vs. SurrealDB

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NamePinecone  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonSurrealDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA managed, cloud-native vector databaseA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingA fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS
Primary database modelVector DBMSVector DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
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Score3.57
Rank#74  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#106  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#176  Overall
#30  Document stores
#16  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.pinecone.iogithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
surrealdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewqdrant.tech/­documentationsurrealdb.com/­docs
DeveloperPinecone Systems, IncQdrantSurrealDB Ltd
Initial release201920212022
Current releasev1.5.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageRustRust
Server operating systemshostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateString, Number, BooleanNumbers, Strings, Geo, Booleanyes
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
Secondary indexesyes infoKeywords, numberic ranges, geo, full-text
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIgRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesPython.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesCollection-level replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID
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.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlKey-based authenticationyes, based on authentication and database rules

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