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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Bangdb vs. Blazegraph vs. Elasticsearch

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonBangdb  Xexclude from comparisonBlazegraph  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparison
Amazon has acquired Blazegraph's domain and (probably) product. It is said that Amazon Neptune is based on Blazegraph.
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyConverged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graphHigh-performance graph database supporting Semantic Web (RDF/SPARQL) and Graph Database (tinkerpop3, blueprints, vertex-centric) APIs with scale-out and High Availability.A distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metric
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Graph DBMS
RDF store
Search engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score0.40
Rank#270  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#347  Overall
#47  Document stores
#34  Graph DBMS
#31  Time Series DBMS
Score0.75
Rank#219  Overall
#19  Graph DBMS
#8  RDF stores
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Websitepinot.apache.orgbangdb.comblazegraph.comwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearch
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgdocs.bangdb.comwiki.blazegraph.comwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsSachin Sinha, BangDBBlazegraphElastic
Initial release2015201220062010
Current release1.0.0, September 2023BangDB 2.0, October 20212.1.5, March 20198.6, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoBSD 3Open Source infoextended commercial license availableOpen Source infoElastic License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, C++JavaJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java VM
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, eventsyes infoRDF literal typesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono
Secondary indexesyes infosecondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatialyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL like support with command line toolSPARQL is used as query languageSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBCProprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL QUERY
SPARQL UPDATE
TinkerPop 3
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes
Triggersyes, Notifications (with Streaming only)noyes infoby using the 'percolation' feature
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithmShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)yesyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoES-Hadoop Connector
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemTunable consistency, set CAP knob accordinglyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in Graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, optimistic concurrency controlyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as wellyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes, run db with in-memory only modeMemcached and Redis integration
User concepts infoAccess controlyes (enterprise version only)Security and Authentication via Web Application Container (Tomcat, Jetty)

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