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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Firebird vs. Rockset vs. VoltDB

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.58
Rank#244  Overall
#111  Relational DBMS
Score21.06
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.84
Rank#209  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score1.46
Rank#159  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitepinot.apache.orgwww.firebirdsql.orgrockset.comwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsdocs.rockset.comdocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsFirebird FoundationRocksetVoltDB Inc.
Initial release20152000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase20192010
Current release1.0.0, September 20235.0.0, January 202411.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C++Java, 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
hostedLinux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesdynamic typingyes
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.no infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
HTTP RESTJava API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLnoJava
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnoneAutomatic shardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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