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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Firebird vs. Transwarp ArgoDB vs. VoltDB

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Name

Description

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

Firebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBase

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

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Score	0.40
Rank	#270	Overall
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Score	20.82
Rank	#30	Overall
	#18	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#350	Overall
	#153	Relational DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#158	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

pinot.apache.org

www.firebirdsql.org

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

www.voltdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

www.firebirdsql.org/en/reference-manuals

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Firebird Foundation

Transwarp

VoltDB Inc.

Initial release

2015

2000

As fork of Borland's InterBase

2010

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

5.0.0, January 2024

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Initial Developer's Public License

commercial

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less

Firebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC

Jaybird
ODBC
OLE DB

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PSQL

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Features a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writers

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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