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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. BaseX vs. IRONdb vs. Trafodion

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Name

IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

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Score	0.40
Rank	#270	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Website

pinot.apache.org

basex.org

www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

docs.basex.org

docs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

BaseX GmbH

Circonus LLC.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2015

2007

2017

2014

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

10.7, August 2023

V0.10.20, January 2018

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

yes

text, numeric, histograms

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in Lua

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Automatic, metric affinity per node

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

configurable replication factor, datacenter aware

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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