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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Heroic vs. ObjectBox vs. Sadas Engine vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

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

Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearch

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.40
Rank	#270	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	0.51
Rank	#255	Overall
	#21	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Website

pinot.apache.org

github.com/spotify/heroic

objectbox.io

www.sadasengine.com

sqream.com

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

spotify.github.io/heroic

docs.objectbox.io

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Spotify

ObjectBox Limited

SADAS s.r.l.

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2015

2014

2017

2006

2017

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

8.0

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

yes

via Elasticsearch

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API

Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

horizontal and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

online/offline synchronization between client and server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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.

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

News

On-device Vector Database for Dart/Flutter
21 May 2024

The first On-Device Vector Database: ObjectBox 4.0
16 May 2024

Edge AI: The era of on-device AI
23 April 2024

In-Memory Database Use Cases
15 February 2024

Data Viewer for Objects – announcing ObjectBox Admin
14 November 2023

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