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System Properties Comparison Pinecone vs. SingleStore vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

A managed, cloud-native vector database

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	3.57
Rank	#74	Overall
	#6	Vector DBMS

Score	3.69
Rank	#70	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#378	Overall
	#155	Relational DBMS

Website

www.pinecone.io

www.singlestore.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

docs.singlestore.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Pinecone Systems, Inc

SingleStore Inc.

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2019

2013

1987

Current release

8.5, January 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++, Go

C and C++

Server operating systems

hosted

Linux

64 bit version required

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

Python

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Recent citations in the news

Pinecone turns unstructured data into knowledgeable AI for developers with Microsoft Azure
4 February 2025, Microsoft

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2 December 2024, Blocks and Files

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