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Name

Description

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

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.50
Rank	#248	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#232	Overall
	#106	Relational DBMS

Score	7.44
Rank	#44	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	117.77
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

pinot.apache.org

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

duckdb.org

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

docs.dolthub.com

duckdb.org/docs

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

DoltHub Inc

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2015

2018

2000

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

1.0.0, June 2024

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

CLI Client
HTTP REST

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

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

currently in alpha release

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

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