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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. GBase vs. Rockset vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS
Search engine

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Score	0.40
Rank	#270	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#211	Overall
	#35	Document stores

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

docs.rockset.com

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Rockset

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2015

2004

2019

2014

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, Python

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic 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

ingestion from XML files supported

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Standard with numerous extensions

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Automatic sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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

yes

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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

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