DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. Badger vs. Cassandra vs. SWC-DB vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Badger vs. Cassandra vs. SWC-DB vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

Time Series DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Rank	#275	Overall
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Score	0.22
Rank	#320	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Score	98.83
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	0.08
Rank	#364	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#316	Overall
	#27	Graph DBMS

Website

pinot.apache.org

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

cassandra.apache.org

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

DGraph Labs

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

Alex Kashirin

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2015

2017

2008

2020

2018

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

4.1.3, July 2023

0.5, April 2021

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

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

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Proprietary protocol

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

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

C++

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Journaling Streams

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

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per object

Role-based access control

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