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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Firebird vs. Kinetica vs. Splunk

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonKinetica  Xexclude from comparisonSplunk  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseFully vectorized database across both GPUs and CPUsAnalytics Platform for Big Data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.40
Rank#270  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score0.64
Rank#236  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score86.45
Rank#14  Overall
#2  Search engines
Websitepinot.apache.orgwww.firebirdsql.orgwww.kinetica.comwww.splunk.com
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.kinetica.comdocs.splunk.com/­Documentation/­Splunk
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsFirebird FoundationKineticaSplunk Inc.
Initial release20152000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20122003
Current release1.0.0, September 20235.0.0, January 20247.1, August 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public Licensecommercialcommercial infoLimited free edition and free developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C, C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno infoSplunk Search Processing Language for search commands
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLuser defined functionsyes
Triggersyesyes infotriggers when inserted values for one or more columns fall within a specified rangeyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnoneShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoA 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoGPU vRAM or System RAMno
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users and roles on table levelAccess rights for users and roles

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