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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Ehcache vs. Graphite vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

A widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage options

Data logging and graphing tool for time series data

The storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

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Score	4.64
Rank	#68	Overall
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Score	4.83
Rank	#67	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

pinot.apache.org

www.ehcache.org

github.com/graphite-project/graphite-web

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

www.ehcache.org/documentation

graphite.readthedocs.io

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Chris Davis

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2015

2009

2006

2013

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

3.10.0, March 2022

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Python

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Unix

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JCache

HTTP API
Sockets

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

Java

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Cache Event Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

by using Terracotta Server

none

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Tunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

yes

supports JTA and can work as an XA resource

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

using a tiered cache-storage approach

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

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