DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. chDB vs. CockroachDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. chDB vs. CockroachDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. SAP HANA

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Description

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

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

CockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.35
Rank	#274	Overall
	#128	Relational DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	4.74
Rank	#67	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Score	3.55
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

pinot.apache.org

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

www.cockroachlabs.com

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

doc.chdb.io

www.cockroachlabs.com/docs

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Cockroach Labs

Microsoft

SAP

Initial release

2015

2023

2015

2012

2010

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

24.1.0, May 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0, commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

server-less

Linux
macOS
Windows

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

dynamic schema

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes, wire compatible with PostgreSQL

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

all tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFT

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

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

Role-based access control

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

yes

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