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DBMS > Pinecone vs. Riak KV vs. Valentina Server vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison Pinecone vs. Riak KV vs. Valentina Server vs. YDB

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NamePinecone  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonValentina Server  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA managed, cloud-native vector databaseDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeObject-relational database and reports serverA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelVector DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
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Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score4.01
Rank#79  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.21
Rank#325  Overall
#144  Relational DBMS
Score0.33
Rank#287  Overall
#43  Document stores
#132  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.pinecone.iowww.valentina-db.netgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestvalentina-db.com/­docs/­dokuwiki/­v5/­doku.phpydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperPinecone Systems, IncOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesParadigma SoftwareYandex
Initial release2019200919992019
Current release3.2.0, December 20225.7.5
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnonono
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Implementation languageErlang
Server operating systemshostedLinux
OS X
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateString, Number, Booleannoyesyes
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 indexesrestrictedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonoyesSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
ODBCRESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
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
.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresErlangyesno
Triggersyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksyes
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 factorActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infolinks between data sets can be storedyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, using Riak Securityfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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