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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. EsgynDB vs. Hive vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Sphinx

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodiondata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopA multi-model DBMS and application serverOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Search engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.38
Rank#275  Overall
#126  Relational DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitepinot.apache.orgwww.esgyn.cnhive.apache.orgwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachesphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.intersystems.comsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsEsgynApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookInterSystemsSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release20152015201219972001
Current release1.0.0, September 20233.1.3, April 20222018.1.4, May 20203.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC++, JavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinuxAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesdepending on used data modelyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.noyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetC++
Java
PHP
Python
C#
C++
Java
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJava Stored Proceduresyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceyesno
Triggersnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingShardingnoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication between multi datacentersselectable replication factorSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and rolesno

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