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System Properties Comparison Pinecone vs. RocksDB vs. TerarkDB

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NamePinecone  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA managed, cloud-native vector databaseEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelVector DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
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Score3.29
Rank#94  Overall
#2  Vector DBMS
Score4.00
Rank#84  Overall
#11  Key-value stores
Score0.04
Rank#377  Overall
#58  Key-value stores
Websitewww.pinecone.iorocksdb.orggithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikibytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperPinecone Systems, IncFacebook, Inc.ByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release201920132016
Current release8.11.4, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSDcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageC++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinux
Data schemeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateString, Number, Booleannono
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 indexesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLnonono
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIC++ API
Java API
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesPythonC
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
Triggersno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesno
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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnono

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