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DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. etcd vs. Firebird vs. Memcached vs. SWC-DB

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. etcd vs. Firebird vs. Memcached vs. SWC-DB

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonetcd  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonSWC-DB infoSuper Wide Column Database  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyA distributed reliable key-value storeFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseIn-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingA high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeWide column store
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.40
Rank#270  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
Score7.25
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score20.82
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score0.01
Rank#376  Overall
#13  Wide column stores
Websitepinot.apache.orgetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
www.firebirdsql.orgwww.memcached.orggithub.com/­kashirin-alex/­swc-db
www.swcdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
www.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wiki
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsFirebird FoundationDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalAlex Kashirin
Initial release20152000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20032020
Current release1.0.0, September 20233.4, August 20195.0.0, January 20241.6.27, May 20240.5, April 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicenseOpen Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC and C++CC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesno
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.nono
Secondary indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBCgRPC
JSON over HTTP
ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocolProprietary protocol
Thrift
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C++
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoPSQLnono
Triggersyes, watching key changesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnonenoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.Source-replica replicationnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

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