DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. Datomic vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. NSDb vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Datomic vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. NSDb vs. SQLite

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Description

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

Datomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durability

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.38
Rank	#275	Overall
	#126	Relational DBMS

Score	1.66
Rank	#144	Overall
	#66	Relational DBMS

Score	19.93
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

pinot.apache.org

www.datomic.com

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

nsdb.io

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

docs.datomic.com

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

nsdb.io/Architecture

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Cognitect

Microsoft

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2015

2012

2016

2017

2000

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

1.0.7075, December 2023

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Clojure

C++

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

All OS with a Java VM

hosted

Linux
macOS

server-less

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

Clojure
Java

C#
Java
PHP

Java
Scala

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Transaction Functions

Transact SQL

Triggers

By using transaction functions

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

But extensive use of caching in the application peers

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

recommended only for testing and development

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

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