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DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. DuckDB vs. Kuzu

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. DuckDB vs. Kuzu

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonKuzu  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSAn embeddable property Graph DBMS built for query speed and scalability
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
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Score0.39
Rank#262  Overall
#121  Relational DBMS
Score6.71
Rank#51  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#350  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
Websitepinot.apache.orgduckdb.orgkuzudb.com
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgduckdb.org/­docsdocs.kuzudb.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributors
Initial release201520182022
Current release1.0.0, September 20231.0.0, June 20240.4.2, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoMIT license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherserver-lessserver-less
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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 indexesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
CLI Client
Cypher Query Language
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
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnono
Triggersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnono

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