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System Properties Comparison Pinecone vs. StarRocks vs. TerminusDB

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NamePinecone  Xexclude from comparisonStarRocks  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA managed, cloud-native vector databaseAn open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics infoForked from Apache DorisScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelVector DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
RDF store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score0.93
Rank#198  Overall
#93  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.pinecone.iowww.starrocks.ioterminusdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewdocs.starrocks.io/­en-us/­latest/­introduction/­StarRocks_introterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperPinecone Systems, IncThe Linux Foundation infosince Feb 2023DataChemist Ltd.
Initial release201920202018
Current release3.3, June 202411.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
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Implementation languageC++, JavaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemshostedLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateString, Number, Booleanyesyes
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
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
MySQL protocol
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesPythonJavaJavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes
Triggersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning (by range and hash)Graph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlRole based access control and fine grained access rightsRole-based access control

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