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System Properties Comparison Pinecone vs. Qdrant vs. Typesense

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NamePinecone  Xexclude from comparisonQdrant  Xexclude from comparisonTypesense  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA managed, cloud-native vector databaseA high-performance vector database with neural network or semantic-based matchingA typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity
Primary database modelVector DBMSVector DBMSSearch engine
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Score3.57
Rank#74  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#106  Overall
#8  Vector DBMS
Score0.92
Rank#192  Overall
#14  Search engines
Websitewww.pinecone.iogithub.com/­qdrant/­qdrant
qdrant.tech
typesense.org
Technical documentationdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewqdrant.tech/­documentationtypesense.org/­docs
DeveloperPinecone Systems, IncQdrant
Initial release201920212015
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageRustC++
Server operating systemshostedDocker
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free infopre-defined schema optional
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-textyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIgRPC
OpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP/JSON API infoOpenAPI 3.0
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesPython.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust
.Net infocommunity maintained
Clojure infocommunity maintained
Dart infocommunity maintained
Go infocommunity maintained
Java infocommunity maintained
JavaScript
Perl infocommunity maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust infocommunity maintained
Swift infocommunity maintained
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesCollection-level replicationMulti-source replication using RAFT
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency, tunable consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano
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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlKey-based authentication

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