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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. HEAVY.AI vs. InfinityDB vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

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

A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardware

A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interface

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.35
Rank	#274	Overall
	#128	Relational DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#153	Overall
	#71	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

pinot.apache.org

github.com/heavyai/heavydb
www.heavy.ai

boilerbay.com

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

docs.heavy.ai

boilerbay.com/infinitydb/manual

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

HEAVY.AI, Inc.

Boiler Bay Inc.

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2015

2016

2002

2000

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

5.10, January 2022

4.0

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2; enterprise edition available

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++ and CUDA

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

Data scheme

yes

nested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical â€˜tuple spaceâ€™ runtime Schema upgrade

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

all Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arrays

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega

Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/docs/ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python

Java

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Round robin

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

READ-COMMITTED or SERIALIZED

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

manual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capability

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Optimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loads

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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