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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. HugeGraph vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Snowflake

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Name

Description

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

A fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMS

Search-as-a-service for web and mobile app development

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.38
Rank	#275	Overall
	#126	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#335	Overall
	#31	Graph DBMS

Score	5.52
Rank	#59	Overall
	#6	Search engines

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Website

pinot.apache.org

github.com/hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/search

www.snowflake.com

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

hugegraph.apache.org/docs

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/search

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Baidu

Microsoft

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2015

2018

2015

2014

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

0.9

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux
macOS
Unix

hosted

Data scheme

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

also supports composite index and range index

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin

RESTful HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

Groovy
Java
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Python

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

asynchronous Gremlin script jobs

user defined functions

Triggers

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

depending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBase

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

via hugegraph-spark

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

edges in graph

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

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions

yes

using Azure authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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