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System Properties Comparison Apache Doris vs. Apache Pinot vs. Snowflake

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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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.71
Rank	#260	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.73
Rank	#259	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	120.89
Rank	#11	Overall
	#8	Relational DBMS

Website

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

pinot.apache.org

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

docs.pinot.apache.org

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2017

2015

2014

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

0.11.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

hosted

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL client

JDBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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