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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. ClickHouse vs. KairosDB vs. Memcached vs. RDFox

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Name

Description

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

A high-performance, column-oriented SQL DBMS for online analytical processing (OLAP) that uses all available system resources to their full potential to process each analytical query as fast as possible. It is available as both an open-source software and a cloud offering.

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.40
Rank	#270	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	16.34
Rank	#38	Overall
	#23	Relational DBMS

Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	19.42
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	0.23
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Graph DBMS
	#14	RDF stores

Website

pinot.apache.org

clickhouse.com

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.memcached.org

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

clickhouse.com/docs

kairosdb.github.io

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Clickhouse Inc.

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Initial release

2015

2016

2013

2003

2017

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

v24.4.1.2088-stable, May 2024

1.2.2, November 2018

1.6.25, March 2024

6.0, Septermber 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MySQL wire protocol
ODBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Proprietary protocol

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

Proprietary protocol

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

3rd party library
C++
Elixir

3rd party library
Go

3rd party library
Java

3rd party library
JavaScript (Node.js)

3rd party library
Kotlin

3rd party library
Nim

3rd party library
Perl

3rd party library
PHP

3rd party library
Python

3rd party library
R

3rd party library
Ruby

3rd party library
Rust
Scala

3rd party library

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

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

C
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

key based and custom

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Asynchronous and synchronous physical replication; geographically distributed replicas; support for object storages.

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

replication via a shared file system

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

Access rights for users and roles. Column and row based policies. Quotas and resource limits. Pluggable authentication with LDAP and Kerberos. Password based, X.509 certificate, and SSH key authentication.

simple password-based access control

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

Roles, resources, and access types

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