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System Properties Comparison Pinecone vs. RocksDB vs. Tigris

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Name

Description

A managed, cloud-native vector database

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

A horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Primary database model

Vector DBMS

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS

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Score	3.23
Rank	#92	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.09
Rank	#363	Overall
	#49	Document stores
	#54	Key-value stores
	#22	Search engines
	#38	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.pinecone.io

rocksdb.org

www.tigrisdata.com

Technical documentation

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

www.tigrisdata.com/docs

Developer

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Facebook, Inc.

Tigris Data, Inc.

Initial release

2019

2013

2022

Current release

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

String, Number, Boolean

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

C++ API
Java API

CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, using FoundationDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

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