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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Cloudflare Workers KV vs. Ehcache vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

Description

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

A global, low-latency, key-value store for applications on Cloudflare with exceptionally high read volumes and low-latency.

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.38
Rank	#275	Overall
	#126	Relational DBMS

Score	0.39
Rank	#274	Overall
	#39	Key-value stores

Score	4.64
Rank	#68	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

pinot.apache.org

www.cloudflare.com/developer-platform/workers-kv

www.ehcache.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

developers.cloudflare.com/kv/api

www.ehcache.org/documentation

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Cloudflare

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Microsoft

Initial release

2015

2018

2009

1989

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

3.10.0, March 2022

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

hosted

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HTTP REST
Proprietary protocol

JCache

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

C
C++
Dart
JavaScript
Kotlin
Python
Rust
Scala

Java

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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