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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. GBase vs. Sphinx vs. WakandaDB

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  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.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineObject oriented DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.38
Rank#275  Overall
#126  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.10
Rank#356  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websitepinot.apache.orgwww.gbase.cnsphinxsearch.comwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgsphinxsearch.com/­docswakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Sphinx Technologies Inc.Wakanda SAS
Initial release2015200420012012
Current release1.0.0, September 2023GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c3.5.1, February 20232.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaC, Java, PythonC++C++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.yesno
Secondary indexesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageStandard with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolRESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
C#C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnoyes
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnoyes

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