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DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. HBase vs. Infobright vs. JSqlDb vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. HBase vs. Infobright vs. JSqlDb vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonHBase  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyWide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTableHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.38
Rank#275  Overall
#126  Relational DBMS
Score27.97
Rank#26  Overall
#2  Wide column stores
Score1.02
Rank#192  Overall
#90  Relational DBMS
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Websitepinot.apache.orghbase.apache.orgignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbjsqldb.org (offline)azure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­database
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orghbase.apache.org/­book.htmldocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sql
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software Foundation infoApache top-level project, originally developed by PowersetIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.Konrad von BackstromMicrosoft
Initial release20152008200520182010
Current release1.0.0, September 20232.3.4, January 20210.8, December 2018V12
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache version 2commercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononoyes
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinux
Unix
Windows infousing Cygwin
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptions to bring your own types, AVROyesnoyes
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.nononoyes
Secondary indexesnono infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
JavaScript.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoCoprocessors in Javanofunctions in JavaScriptTransact SQL
Triggersyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnoneyes, with always 3 replicas available
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency or Eventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataSingle row ACID (across millions of columns)ACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing RocksDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABACfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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