DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. GigaSpaces vs. SAP HANA vs. Speedb vs. TinkerGraph

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. GigaSpaces vs. SAP HANA vs. Speedb vs. TinkerGraph

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

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

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

An embeddable, high performance key-value store optimized for write-intensive workloads, which can be used as a drop-in replacement for RocksDB

A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.38
Rank	#275	Overall
	#126	Relational DBMS

Score	1.03
Rank	#188	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.26
Rank	#310	Overall
	#45	Key-value stores

Score	0.13
Rank	#345	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS

Website

pinot.apache.org

www.gigaspaces.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.speedb.io

tinkerpop.apache.org/docs/current/reference/#tinkergraph-gremlin

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Gigaspaces Technologies

SAP

Speedb

Initial release

2015

2000

2010

2020

2009

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

15.5, September 2020

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0; commercial license available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

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.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

JDBC
ODBC

TinkerPop 3

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Groovy
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes, event driven architecture

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

yes

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional

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

yes

More information provided by the system vendor

Specific characteristics

Speedb is an embedded key-value storage engine for versatile use cases. It was designed...
» more

Competitive advantages

Speedb Open-source rebases on RocksDB's latest versions, with enhanced capabilities...
» more

Licensing and pricing models

Open source - Speedb OSS is released under an Apache license and can be found on...
» more

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.