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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. BoltDB vs. Datomic vs. HarperDB

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonHarperDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyAn embedded key-value store for Go.Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityUltra-low latency distributed database with an intuitive REST API supporting NoSQL and SQL (including joins). Deployment of functions and databases simultaneously with a consolidated node-level architecture.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.38
Rank#275  Overall
#126  Relational DBMS
Score0.80
Rank#215  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score0.60
Rank#244  Overall
#38  Document stores
Websitepinot.apache.orggithub.com/­boltdb/­boltwww.datomic.comwww.harperdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgdocs.datomic.comdocs.harperdb.io/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsCognitectHarperDB
Initial release2015201320122017
Current release1.0.0, September 20231.0.7075, December 20233.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT Licensecommercial infolimited edition freecommercial infofree community edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoJava, ClojureNode.js
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesdynamic schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes infoJSON data types
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 indexesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoSQL-like data manipulation statements
APIs and other access methodsJDBCRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
React Hooks
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
GoClojure
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
MatLab
Objective C
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Swift
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes infoTransaction FunctionsCustom Functions infosince release 3.1
TriggersnoBy using transaction functionsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersA table resides as a whole on one (or more) nodes in a cluster
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersyes infothe nodes on which a table resides can be defined
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDAtomic execution of specific operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yes, using LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoAccess rights for users and roles

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