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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Cachelot.io vs. JaguarDB vs. Sphinx

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonCachelot.io  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyIn-memory caching systemPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.35
Rank#274  Overall
#128  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
#16  Vector DBMS
Score5.97
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitepinot.apache.orgcachelot.iowww.jaguardb.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsDataJaguar, Inc.Sphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release2015201520152001
Current release1.0.0, September 20233.3 July 20233.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoSimplified BSD LicenseOpen Source infoGPL V3.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++C++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesno
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 indexesnoyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBCMemcached protocolJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnoneShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentnoyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnorights management via user accountsno

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