DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. FileMaker vs. Lovefield vs. SAP HANA

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. FileMaker vs. Lovefield vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.38
Rank	#275	Overall
	#126	Relational DBMS

Score	47.91
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

pinot.apache.org

www.claris.com/filemaker

google.github.io/lovefield

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Google

SAP

Initial release

2015

1983

2014

2010

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

19.4.1, November 2021

2.1.12, February 2017

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

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

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

via plugins

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

PHP

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

yes

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