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DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. Elasticsearch vs. Galaxybase vs. Hive vs. HugeGraph

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Elasticsearch vs. Galaxybase vs. Hive vs. HugeGraph

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineGraph DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.40
Rank#270  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#336  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Websitepinot.apache.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchgalaxybase.comhive.apache.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmlcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homehugegraph.apache.org/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsElasticChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Apache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookBaidu
Initial release20152010201720122018
Current release1.0.0, September 20238.6, January 2023Nov 20, November 20213.1.3, April 20220.9
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoElastic LicensecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC and JavaJavaJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherAll OS with a Java VMLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Unix
Data schemeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentStrong typed schemayesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range index
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
Python
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Groovy
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesuser defined procedures and functionsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceasynchronous Gremlin script jobs
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingShardingShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesselectable replication factoryes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectornoyes infoquery execution via MapReducevia hugegraph-spark
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes infoRelationships in graphsnoyes infoedges in graph
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlRole-based access controlAccess rights for users, groups and rolesUsers, roles and permissions

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