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System Properties Comparison Pinecone vs. Quasardb vs. XTDB

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NamePinecone  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA managed, cloud-native vector databaseDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelVector DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.pinecone.ioquasar.aigithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewdoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperPinecone Systems, IncquasardbJuxt Ltd.
Initial release201920092019
Current release3.14.1, January 20241.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++Clojure
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateString, Number, Booleanyes infointeger and binaryyes, 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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query languagelimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIHTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesPython.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication with selectable replication factoryes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDByes, 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.noyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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