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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. FoundationDB vs. Snowflake vs. Trafodion

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Name

Created as commercial project in 2013, FoundationDB has been acquired by Apple in March 2015 and was withdrawn from the market. As a consequence, the product was removed from the DB-Engines ranking. In April 2018, Apple open-sourced FoundationDB and it therefore reappears in the ranking.

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Ordered key-value store. Core features are complimented by layers.

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

supported via specific layer
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

supported via specific SQL-layer

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.38
Rank	#275	Overall
	#126	Relational DBMS

Score	1.06
Rank	#185	Overall
	#31	Document stores
	#28	Key-value stores
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

pinot.apache.org

github.com/apple/foundationdb

www.snowflake.com

trafodion.apache.org

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

apple.github.io/foundationdb

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

FoundationDB

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Initial release

2015

2013

2014

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

6.2.28, November 2020

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

some layers support schemas

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

some layers support typing

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

supported in specific SQL layer only

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python
Ruby
Swift

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

in SQL-layer only

user defined functions

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

yes, via HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Linearizable consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

in SQL-layer only

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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