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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. GBase vs. HBase vs. HyperSQL vs. Ignite

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.40
Rank#270  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score30.50
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Websitepinot.apache.orgwww.gbase.cnhbase.apache.orghsqldb.orgignite.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orghbase.apache.org/­book.htmlhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlapacheignite.readme.io/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Apache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetApache Software Foundation
Initial release20152004200820012015
Current release1.0.0, September 2023GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c2.3.4, January 20212.7.2, June 2023Apache Ignite 2.6
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, Java, PythonJavaJavaC++, Java, .Net
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinuxLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
All OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesyes
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.yesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageStandard with numerous extensionsnoyesANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
C#C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsyes infoCoprocessors in JavaJava, SQLyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)
Triggersyesyesyesyes (cache interceptors and events)
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyes (replicated cache)
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.yesyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardSecurity Hooks for custom implementations

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