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NamePinecone  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA managed, cloud-native vector databaseEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)
Primary database modelVector DBMSKey-value store
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Score2.94
Rank#84  Overall
#5  Vector DBMS
Score3.06
Rank#82  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Websitewww.pinecone.iorocksdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wiki
DeveloperPinecone Systems, IncFacebook, Inc.
Initial release20192013
Current release9.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesno
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Implementation languageC++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Data schemeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateString, Number, Booleanno
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.nono
Secondary indexesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIC++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesPythonC
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno

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