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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Firebird vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Rockset vs. STSdb

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score0.38
Rank#275  Overall
#126  Relational DBMS
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitepinot.apache.orgwww.firebirdsql.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchrockset.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualslearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsFirebird FoundationMicrosoftRocksetSTS Soft SC
Initial release20152000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase201520192011
Current release1.0.0, September 20235.0.0, January 2024V14.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesyesno
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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
hostedhostedWindows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesdynamic typingyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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 infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesnoRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP REST.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnonono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyes infousing Azure authenticationAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleno

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