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DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. BigObject vs. Tkrzw vs. TypeDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. BigObject vs. Tkrzw vs. TypeDB

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
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Score0.40
Rank#270  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#333  Overall
#147  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Score0.65
Rank#234  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitepinot.apache.orgbigobject.iodbmx.net/­tkrzwtypedb.com
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgdocs.bigobject.iotypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsBigObject, Inc.Mikio HirabayashiVaticle
Initial release2015201520202016
Current release1.0.0, September 20230.9.3, August 20202.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuanono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnonenoneSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenoneMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesnono infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes infousing specific database classesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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Apache PinotBigObjectTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn
Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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