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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. DolphinDB vs. Hive vs. IBM Cloudant vs. IBM Db2

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Db2 infoformerly named DB2 or IBM Database 2  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyDolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBCommon in IBM host environments, 2 different versions for host and Windows/Linux
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS infoSince Version 10.5 support for JSON/BSON documents compatible with MongoDB
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
RDF store infoin Db2 LUW (Linux, Unix, Windows)
Spatial DBMS infowith Db2 Spatial Extender
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.40
Rank#270  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
Score4.13
Rank#80  Overall
#6  Time Series DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score128.46
Rank#8  Overall
#5  Relational DBMS
Websitepinot.apache.orgwww.dolphindb.comhive.apache.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.ibm.com/­products/­db2
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homecloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantwww.ibm.com/­docs/­en/­db2
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsDolphinDB, IncApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014IBM
Initial release20152018201220101983 infohost version
Current release1.0.0, September 2023v2.00.4, January 20223.1.3, April 202212.1, October 2016
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialcommercial infofree version is available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++JavaErlangC and C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinux
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
JSON style queries infoMongoDB compatible
ODBC
XQuery
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
C++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Delphi
Fortran
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptyes
Triggersnonoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioningShardingShardingSharding infoonly with Windows/Unix/Linux Version
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infowith separate tools (MQ, InfoSphere)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
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.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlAdministrators, Users, GroupsAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users can be defined per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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