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DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. BoltDB vs. FoundationDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. BoltDB vs. FoundationDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonBoltDB  Xexclude from comparisonFoundationDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparison
Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyAn embedded key-value store for Go.Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument store infosupported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS infosupported via specific SQL-layer
Search engine
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.40
Rank#270  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#220  Overall
#31  Key-value stores
Score1.03
Rank#190  Overall
#31  Document stores
#28  Key-value stores
#89  Relational DBMS
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Websitepinot.apache.orggithub.com/­boltdb/­boltgithub.com/­apple/­foundationdbazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­search
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgapple.github.io/­foundationdblearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­search
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsFoundationDBMicrosoft
Initial release2015201320132015
Current release1.0.0, September 20236.2.28, November 2020V1
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaGoC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free infosome layers support schemasyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnono infosome layers support typingyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenosupported in specific SQL layer onlyno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Go.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoin SQL-layer onlyno
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnoneShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud service
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneLinearizable consistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoin SQL-layer onlyno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoyes infousing Azure authentication

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