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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. BaseX vs. NSDb vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed 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.

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

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Score	0.35
Rank	#274	Overall
	#128	Relational DBMS

Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Website

pinot.apache.org

basex.org

nsdb.io

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

docs.basex.org

nsdb.io/Architecture

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

BaseX GmbH

Teradata

Initial release

2015

2007

2017

2005

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

11.2, August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XQuery supports types

yes: int, bigint, decimal, 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.

yes

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

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

Java
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

R packages

Triggers

yes

via events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Using Apache Lucene

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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