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DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. DuckDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. NSDb vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. DuckDB vs. Google BigQuery vs. NSDb vs. SwayDB

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle BigQuery  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSLarge scale data warehouse service with append-only tablesScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
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Score0.40
Rank#270  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
Score4.57
Rank#74  Overall
#40  Relational DBMS
Score60.38
Rank#19  Overall
#13  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websitepinot.apache.orgduckdb.orgcloud.google.com/­bigquerynsdb.ioswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgduckdb.org/­docscloud.google.com/­bigquery/­docsnsdb.io/­Architecture
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsGoogleSimer Plaha
Initial release20152018201020172018
Current release1.0.0, September 20230.10, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC++Java, ScalaScala
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherserver-lesshostedLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringno
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 indexesyesnoall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesyesSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
C
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java
Scala
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions infoin JavaScriptnono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnonenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoSince BigQuery is designed for querying datanoAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level infoGoogle Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)no

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