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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. IBM Cloudant vs. OrigoDB vs. TerarkDB

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Name

Description

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

Database as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDB

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Key-value store

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Score	0.40
Rank	#270	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	2.68
Rank	#106	Overall
	#20	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

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Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Website

pinot.apache.org

www.ibm.com/products/cloudant

origodb.com

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

cloud.ibm.com/docs/Cloudant

origodb.com/docs

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

IBM, Apache Software Foundation

IBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014

Robert Friberg et al

ByteDance, originally Terark

Initial release

2015

2010

2009

under the name LiveDB

2016

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

commercial

restricted open source version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

hosted

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby

.Net

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a document possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic locking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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

Access rights for users can be defined per database

Role based authorization

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