DBMS > Apache Doris vs. Apache Pinot vs. DuckDB vs. Firebolt vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

System Properties Comparison Apache Doris vs. Apache Pinot vs. DuckDB vs. Firebolt vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB

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Name

Description

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.60
Rank	#247	Overall
	#113	Relational DBMS

Score	0.38
Rank	#275	Overall
	#126	Relational DBMS

Score	4.63
Rank	#69	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#140	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	27.71
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Website

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

pinot.apache.org

duckdb.org

www.firebolt.io

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

Technical documentation

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

docs.pinot.apache.org

duckdb.org/docs

docs.firebolt.io

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2017

2015

2018

2020

2014

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

1.0.0, September 2023

1.0.0, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

server-less

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL client

JDBC

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
Python

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

JavaScript

Triggers

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

depending on storage layer

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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 rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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