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DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. BigchainDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IRONdb

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. BigchainDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IRONdb

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonBigchainDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyBigchainDB is scalable blockchain database offering decentralization, immutability and native assetsDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.40
Rank#270  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Websitepinot.apache.orgwww.bigchaindb.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgbigchaindb.readthedocs.io/­en/­latestcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Circonus LLC.
Initial release2015201620102017
Current release1.0.0, September 2023V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL v3commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaPythonErlangC and C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinuxhostedLinux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyes infotext, numeric, histograms
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 indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBCCLI Client
RESTful HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes, in Lua
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
configurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes,with MongoDB ord RethinkDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno

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