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System Properties Comparison Pinecone vs. RDF4J vs. TerminusDB vs. VelocityDB

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NamePinecone  Xexclude from comparisonRDF4J infoformerly known as Sesame  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA managed, cloud-native vector databaseRDF4J is a Java framework for processing RDF data, supporting both memory-based and a disk-based storage.Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelVector DBMSRDF storeGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score0.69
Rank#230  Overall
#9  RDF stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.pinecone.iordf4j.orgterminusdb.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewrdf4j.org/­documentationterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#velocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperPinecone Systems, IncSince 2016 officially forked into an Eclipse project, former developer was Aduna Software.DataChemist Ltd.VelocityDB Inc
Initial release2019200420182011
Current release11.0.0, January 20237.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoEclipse Distribution License (EDL), v1.0.Open Source infoGPL V3commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaProlog, RustC#
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Unix
Windows
LinuxAny that supports .NET
Data schemeyes infoRDF Schemasyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateString, Number, Booleanyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like query language (WOQL)no
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJava API
RIO infoRDF Input/Output
Sail API
SeRQL infoSesame RDF Query Language
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SPARQL
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
.Net
Supported programming languagesPythonJava
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesno
TriggersyesyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoIsolation support depends on the API usedACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoin-memory storage is supported as wellyes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole-based access controlBased on Windows Authentication

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