DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. EJDB vs. GBase vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. EJDB vs. GBase vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. SAP IQ

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Hawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Primary database model

column-oriented

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Score	0.38
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Rank	#296	Overall
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Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
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	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Website

pinot.apache.org

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb

www.gbase.cn

www.hawkular.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

github.com/Softmotions/ejdb/blob/master/README.md

www.hawkular.org/hawkular-metrics/docs/user-guide

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Softmotions

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Community supported by Red Hat

SAP, formerly Sybase

Initial release

2015

2012

2004

2014

1994

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, Python

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

server-less

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

string, integer, double, bool, date, object_id

yes

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

in-process shared library

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

via Hawkular Alerting

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

typically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possible

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/Write Locking

yes

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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