DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. Galaxybase vs. Hive vs. HugeGraph vs. OpenSearch

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Galaxybase vs. Hive vs. HugeGraph vs. OpenSearch

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Name

Description

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

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on Hadoop

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.40
Rank	#270	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#39	Graph DBMS

Score	61.17
Rank	#18	Overall
	#12	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#336	Overall
	#32	Graph DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

pinot.apache.org

galaxybase.com

hive.apache.org

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/Hive/Home

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Apache Software Foundation

initially developed by Facebook

Baidu

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2015

2017

2012

2018

2021

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

Nov 20, November 2021

3.1.3, April 2022

0.9

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and Java

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS
Unix

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

yes

Strong typed schema

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

C++
Java
PHP
Python

Groovy
Java
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

yes

user defined functions and integration of map-reduce

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

query execution via MapReduce

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

edges in graph

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Role-based access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles

Users, roles and permissions

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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