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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Bangdb vs. Datomic vs. EJDB

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Name

Description

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

Converged and high performance database for device data, events, time series, document and graph

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.40
Rank	#270	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#347	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#34	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#150	Overall
	#69	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#297	Overall
	#44	Document stores

Website

pinot.apache.org

bangdb.com

www.datomic.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

docs.bangdb.com

docs.datomic.com

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Cognitect

Softmotions

Initial release

2015

2012

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

1.0.6735, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GPLv2

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

Java, Clojure

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: string, long, double, int, geospatial, stream, events

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

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

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL like support with command line tool

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

in-process shared library

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

Clojure
Java

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

By using transaction functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding (enterprise version only). P2P based virtual network overlay with consistent hashing and chord algorithm

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor, Knob for CAP (enterprise version only)

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable consistency, set CAP knob accordingly

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Read/Write Locking

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, run db with in-memory only mode

yes

recommended only for testing and development

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

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