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System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. BigObject vs. Cassandra vs. Pinecone

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Name

Description

Schema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud Storage

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

A managed, cloud-native vector database

Primary database model

Document store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Wide column store

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Score	2.02
Rank	#124	Overall
	#22	Document stores
	#59	Relational DBMS

Score	0.19
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	3.23
Rank	#92	Overall
	#2	Vector DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

drill.apache.org/docs

docs.bigobject.io

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.pinecone.io/docs/overview

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

BigObject, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Pinecone Systems, Inc

Initial release

2012

2015

2008

2019

Current release

1.20.3, January 2023

4.1.3, July 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

String, Number, Boolean

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliant

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C++

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

Depending on the underlying data source

yes

User concepts

Access control

Depending on the underlying data source

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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