DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. Bangdb vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Milvus vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Bangdb vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Milvus vs. SAP HANA

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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

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Wide column store

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.38
Rank	#275	Overall
	#126	Relational DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#338	Overall
	#47	Document stores
	#32	Graph DBMS
	#31	Time Series DBMS

Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	2.78
Rank	#103	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

pinot.apache.org

bangdb.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

milvus.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

docs.bangdb.com

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Sachin Sinha, BangDB

Microsoft

SAP

Initial release

2015

2012

2019

2010

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

BangDB 2.0, October 2021

2.4.4, May 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD 3

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux

hosted

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

yes

secondary, composite, nested, reverse, geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL like support with command line tool

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Python

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes, Notifications (with Streaming only)

yes

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

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

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

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

yes

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

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, optimistic concurrency control

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, implements WAL (Write ahead log) as well

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

User concepts

Access control

yes (enterprise version only)

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

yes

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