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System Properties Comparison Pinecone vs. Realm vs. Spark SQL vs. TerminusDB

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NamePinecone  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA managed, cloud-native vector databaseA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelVector DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
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Score3.16
Rank#95  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.pinecone.iorealm.iospark.apache.org/­sqlterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewrealm.io/­docsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperPinecone Systems, IncRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Apache Software FoundationDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release2019201420142018
Current release3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageScalaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesPython.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Java
Python
R
Scala
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessarynoyes
Triggersyes infoChange Listenersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes, utilizing Spark CoreGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoIn-Memory realmno
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoRole-based access control

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