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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Google BigQuery vs. InfluxDB vs. Memgraph

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Name

Description

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

Large scale data warehouse service with append-only tables

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

An open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Rank	#270	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	60.38
Rank	#19	Overall
	#13	Relational DBMS

Score	25.83
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.02
Rank	#98	Overall
	#8	Graph DBMS

Website

pinot.apache.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

memgraph.com

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

memgraph.com/docs

Social network pages

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Google

Memgraph Ltd

Initial release

2015

2010

2013

2017

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

2.7.6, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

BSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

hosted

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

schema-free and schema-optional

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

Bolt protocol
Cypher query language

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

.Net
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

in JavaScript

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding

dynamic graph partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

Multi-source replication using RAFT

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

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

Since BigQuery is designed for querying data

ACID

with snapshot isolation

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

with periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

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

Google Cloud Identity & Access Management (IAM)

simple rights management via user accounts

Users, roles and permissions

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