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DBMS > mSQL vs. Pinecone vs. RDF4J vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. Pinecone vs. RDF4J vs. TerarkDB

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NamemSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonPinecone  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA managed, cloud-native vector databaseRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSVector DBMSRDF storeKey-value store
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Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#222  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitehughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.pinecone.iordf4j.orggithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewrdf4j.org/­documentationbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperHughes TechnologiesPinecone Systems, IncSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.ByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release1994201920042016
Current release4.4, October 2021
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.commercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageCJavaC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
hostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyes infoRDF Schemasschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesString, Number, Booleanyesno
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 indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
PythonJava
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datanoyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonono

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