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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Dgraph vs. EsgynDB vs. IBM Cloudant vs. LokiJS

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
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Score0.38
Rank#275  Overall
#126  Relational DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitepinot.apache.orgdgraph.iowww.esgyn.cnwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgdgraph.io/­docscloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudanttechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsDgraph Labs, Inc.EsgynIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014
Initial release20152016201520102014
Current release1.0.0, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaGoC++, JavaErlangJavaScript
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinux
OS X
Windows
Linuxhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnono
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCGraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava Stored ProceduresView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningyesShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSynchronous replication via RaftMulti-source replication between multi datacentersMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic locking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlno infoPlanned for future releasesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseno

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