DBMS > Pinecone vs. RavenDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Spark SQL

System Properties Comparison Pinecone vs. RavenDB vs. SAP HANA vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

A managed, cloud-native vector database

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Vector DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	3.16
Rank	#95	Overall
	#2	Vector DBMS

Score	2.92
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	18.96
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

www.pinecone.io

ravendb.net

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

ravendb.net/docs

help.sap.com/hana

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Hibernating Rhinos

SAP

formerly Sybase

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2019

2010

1992

2014

Current release

5.4, July 2022

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

17, July 2015

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Scala

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

String, Number, Boolean

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language (RQL)

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Python

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

none

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Authorization levels configured per client per database

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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