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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Cachelot.io vs. Cassandra vs. InterSystems IRIS

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Name

Description

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

In-memory caching system

Wide-column store based on ideas of BigTable and DynamoDB

Optimized for write access

A containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalability

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Wide column store

Document store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

starting with release V5

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Trend Chart

Score	0.40
Rank	#270	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	101.89
Rank	#12	Overall
	#1	Wide column stores

Score	4.05
Rank	#83	Overall
	#14	Document stores
	#10	Key-value stores
	#1	Object oriented DBMS
	#45	Relational DBMS

Website

pinot.apache.org

cachelot.io

cassandra.apache.org

www.intersystems.com/products/intersystems-iris

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

cassandra.apache.org/doc/latest

docs.intersystems.com/irislatest/csp/docbook/DocBook.UI.Page.cls

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top level project, originally developped by Facebook

InterSystems

Initial release

2015

2008

2018

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

4.1.3, July 2023

2023.3, June 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

Apache version 2

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

restricted

only equality queries, not always the best performing solution

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like SELECT, DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Memcached protocol

Proprietary protocol

CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

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

Access rights for users can be defined per object

yes

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