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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Databricks vs. HBase vs. Sequoiadb

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Wide column storeDocument store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.40
Rank#270  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
Score78.61
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score0.45
Rank#261  Overall
#41  Document stores
#122  Relational DBMS
Websitepinot.apache.orgwww.databricks.comhbase.apache.orgwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgdocs.databricks.comhbase.apache.org/­book.htmlwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsDatabricksApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release2015201320082013
Current release1.0.0, September 20232.3.4, January 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherhostedLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-free, schema definition possibleschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagewith Databricks SQLnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesyes infoCoprocessors in JavaJavaScript
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)Document is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACsimple password-based access control
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