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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Google BigQuery vs. Hypertable vs. RavenDB

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Name

Hypertable has stopped its further development with March 2016 and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

An open source BigTable implementation based on distributed file systems such as Hadoop

Open Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document Database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Document store

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.40
Rank	#270	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	2.92
Rank	#101	Overall
	#18	Document stores

Website

pinot.apache.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

ravendb.net

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

ravendb.net/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Google

Hypertable Inc.

Hibernating Rhinos

Initial release

2015

2010

2009

2010

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

0.9.8.11, March 2016

5.4, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GNU version 3. Commercial license available

Open Source

AGPL version 3, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

hosted

Linux
OS X
Windows

an inofficial Windows port is available

Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

restricted

only exact value or prefix value scans

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language (RQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

C++ API
Thrift

.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor on file system level

Multi-source replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Default ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID, Cluster-wide transaction available

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

Access privileges (owner, writer, reader) on dataset, table or view level

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

Authorization levels configured per client per database

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