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System Properties Comparison Pinecone vs. Tarantool vs. UniData,UniVerse

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NamePinecone  Xexclude from comparisonTarantool  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA managed, cloud-native vector databaseIn-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applicationsMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities
Primary database modelVector DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Multivalue DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infowith Tarantool/GIS extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score3.23
Rank#92  Overall
#3  Vector DBMS
Score1.67
Rank#143  Overall
#25  Document stores
#25  Key-value stores
#65  Relational DBMS
Score2.85
Rank#98  Overall
#1  Multivalue DBMS
Websitewww.pinecone.iowww.tarantool.iowww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidata
Technical documentationdocs.pinecone.io/­docs/­overviewwww.tarantool.io/­en/­docdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata
DeveloperPinecone Systems, IncVKRocket Software
Initial release201920081985
Current release2.10.0, May 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoBSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprisecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC and C++C
Server operating systemshostedBSD
Linux
macOS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeFlexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columnsschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateString, Number, Booleanstring, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetimeoptional
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoFull-featured ANSI SQL supportyes
APIs and other access methodsRESTful HTTP APIOpen binary protocolJava API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
Supported programming languagesPythonC
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLua, C and SQL stored proceduresyes
Triggersyes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session eventsyes infoU2 Basic
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.none
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesAsynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemCasual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition infowhen using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition infowhen using Raft
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactionsACID infoconfigurable
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, cooperative multitaskingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, write ahead loggingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles
Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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