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DBMS > Pinecone vs. ScyllaDB vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison Pinecone vs. ScyllaDB vs. Transwarp Hippo

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NamePinecone  Xexclude from comparisonScyllaDB  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp Hippo  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA managed, cloud-native vector databaseCassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column storeCloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets
Primary database modelVector DBMSWide column storeVector DBMS
Secondary database modelsKey-value store
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Score3.17
Rank#81  Overall
#6  Vector DBMS
Score3.61
Rank#72  Overall
#5  Wide column stores
Score0.01
Rank#383  Overall
#22  Vector DBMS
Websitewww.pinecone.iowww.scylladb.comwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­subproduct/­hippo
Technical documentationdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewdocs.scylladb.com
DeveloperPinecone Systems, IncScyllaDB
Initial release201920152023
Current releaseScyllaDB Open Source 6.2.0, October 20241.0, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoOpen Source (AGPL), commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++C++
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateString, Number, BooleanyesVector, Numeric and String
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 indexesyes infocluster global secondary indicesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)no
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIProprietary protocol (CQL) infocompatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesPythonFor CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby
C++
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, Luano
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infoRepresentation of geographical distribution of servers is possible
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency infocan be individually decided for each write operation
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayes infoAtomicity and isolation are supported for single operationsno
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.noyes infoin-memory tablesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per objectRole based access control and fine grained access rights

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