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DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. CouchDB vs. Kingbase vs. TigerGraph vs. ToroDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. CouchDB vs. Kingbase vs. TigerGraph vs. ToroDB

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonCouchDB infostands for "Cluster Of Unreliable Commodity Hardware"  Xexclude from comparisonKingbase  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonToroDB  Xexclude from comparison
ToroDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyA native JSON - document store inspired by Lotus Notes, scalable from globally distributed server-clusters down to mobile phones.An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeA MongoDB-compatible JSON document store, built on top of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS infousing the Geocouch extensionDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.38
Rank#275  Overall
#126  Relational DBMS
Score8.30
Rank#47  Overall
#7  Document stores
Score0.50
Rank#257  Overall
#119  Relational DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Websitepinot.apache.orgcouchdb.apache.orgwww.kingbase.com.cnwww.tigergraph.comgithub.com/­torodb/­server
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgdocs.couchdb.org/­en/­stabledocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by Damien Katz, a former Lotus Notes developerBeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.8Kdata
Initial release20152005199920172016
Current release1.0.0, September 20233.3.3, December 2023V8.0, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2commercialcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL-V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaErlangC and JavaC++Java
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherAndroid
BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java 7 VM
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes infostring, integer, double, boolean, date, object_id
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language (GSQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBCRESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT
GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
C
C#
ColdFusion
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
Ruby
Smalltalk
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding infoimproved architecture with release 2.0horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datano infoatomic operations within a single document possibleACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infostrategy: optimistic lockingyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlAccess rights for users and roles

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