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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Ehcache vs. Infobright vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage

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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

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

Primary database model

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Score	0.40
Rank	#270	Overall
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Score	4.89
Rank	#67	Overall
	#8	Key-value stores

Score	0.96
Rank	#194	Overall
	#91	Relational DBMS

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Website

pinot.apache.org

www.ehcache.org

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

www.ehcache.org/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Terracotta Inc, owned by Software AG

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Microsoft

Initial release

2015

2009

2005

2012

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

3.10.0, March 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; commercial licenses available

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
Windows

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JCache

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

Java

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
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

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

by using Terracotta Server

Source-replica replication

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

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)

Immediate Consistency

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

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

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