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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Datomic vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Rockset

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.40
Rank#270  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Websitepinot.apache.orgwww.datomic.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
rockset.com
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgdocs.datomic.comdocs.heavy.aidocs.rockset.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsCognitectHEAVY.AI, Inc.Rockset
Initial release2015201220162019
Current release1.0.0, September 20231.0.6735, June 20235.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ClojureC++ and CUDAC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherAll OS with a Java VMLinuxhosted
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesdynamic typing
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.nonono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesnoall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsJDBCRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Clojure
Java
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionsnono
TriggersBy using transaction functionsnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersSharding infoRound robinAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersMulti-source replicationyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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