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System Properties Comparison Apache Impala vs. Apache Pinot vs. BigchainDB vs. Snowflake vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for Hadoop

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

BigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assets

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

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	13.77
Rank	#40	Overall
	#24	Relational DBMS

Score	0.40
Rank	#270	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#327	Overall
	#145	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

impala.apache.org/impala-docs.html

docs.pinot.apache.org

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Cloudera

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Paradigma Software

Initial release

2013

2015

2016

2014

1999

Current release

4.1.0, June 2022

1.0.0, September 2023

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Python

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

yes

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

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ODBC

Supported programming languages

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC

Go
Java
Python

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

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

yes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDB

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

Access rights for users, groups and roles

based on Apache Sentry and Kerberos

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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