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DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. Faircom DB vs. GBase vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Faircom DB vs. GBase vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom DB infoformerly c-treeACE  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyNative high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.35
Rank#274  Overall
#128  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#314  Overall
#45  Key-value stores
#141  Relational DBMS
Score1.11
Rank#173  Overall
#78  Relational DBMS
Score72.95
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Websitepinot.apache.orgwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-dbwww.gbase.cnazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­database
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.htmldocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sql
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsFairCom CorporationGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Microsoft
Initial release2015197920042010
Current release1.0.0, September 2023V13, July 2024GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8cV12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageJavaANSI C, C++C, Java, PythonC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows infoeasily portable to other OSs
Linuxhosted
Data schemeyesschema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structuresyesyes
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.noyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensionsStandard with numerous extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic
C#.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++user defined functionsTransact SQL
Triggersyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningFile partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding infoCustomizable business rules for table partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).yesyes, with always 3 replicas available
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datatunable from ACID to Eventually ConsistentACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentYes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memoryyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes
User concepts infoAccess controlFine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for filesyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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