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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Blueflood vs. Milvus vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on Cassandra

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

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

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Score	0.38
Rank	#275	Overall
	#126	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#346	Overall
	#33	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.78
Rank	#103	Overall
	#3	Vector DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

github.com/rax-maas/blueflood/wiki

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Rackspace

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2015

2013

2019

2014

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

2.4.4, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Go

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux
OS X

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

hosted

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

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

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metrics

As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations 3k+ enterprise...
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Licensing and pricing models

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