DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. EsgynDB vs. Kinetica vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. EsgynDB vs. Kinetica vs. Teradata Aster

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Fully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUs

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.38
Rank	#275	Overall
	#126	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#312	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.66
Rank	#234	Overall
	#107	Relational DBMS

Website

pinot.apache.org

www.esgyn.cn

www.kinetica.com

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

docs.kinetica.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Esgyn

Kinetica

Teradata

Initial release

2015

2012

2005

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

7.1, August 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Java

C, C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

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.

yes

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

R packages

Triggers

yes

triggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified range

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication between multi datacenters

Source-replica replication

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

yes

GPU vRAM or System RAM

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles on table level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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