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DBMS > Pinecone vs. Riak KV vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Pinecone vs. Riak KV vs. ToroDB

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NamePinecone  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA managed, cloud-native vector databaseDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelVector DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesDocument store
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Score3.29
Rank#94  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score4.44
Rank#80  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Websitewww.pinecone.iogithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latest
DeveloperPinecone Systems, IncOpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies8Kdata
Initial release201920092016
Current release3.2.0, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editionOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageErlangJava
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
All OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateString, Number, Booleannoyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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 indexesrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languagesPythonC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresErlang
Triggersyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infono "single point of failure"Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infolinks between data sets can be storedno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, using Riak SecurityAccess rights for users and roles

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