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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. ArcadeDB vs. BigchainDB vs. Ingres vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

Description

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

Fast and scalable multi-model DBMS, originally forked from OrientDB but most of the code has been rewritten

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

Well established RDBMS

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Time Series DBMS

in next version

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.38
Rank	#275	Overall
	#126	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#358	Overall
	#48	Document stores
	#38	Graph DBMS
	#52	Key-value stores
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.85
Rank	#208	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	3.80
Rank	#82	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

pinot.apache.org

arcadedb.com

www.bigchaindb.com

www.actian.com/databases/ingres

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

docs.arcadedb.com

bigchaindb.readthedocs.io/en/latest

docs.actian.com/ingres

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Arcade Data

Actian Corporation

Microsoft

Initial release

2015

2021

2016

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

1989

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

September 2021

11.2, May 2022

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL v3

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Python

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

All OS with a Java VM

Linux

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
MongoDB API
OpenCypher
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Redis API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop Gremlin

CLI Client
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

Java

Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Ingres Replicator

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

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

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

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

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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