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DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. Ignite vs. InfinityDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Solr

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Ignite vs. InfinityDB vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. Solr

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonIgnite  Xexclude from comparisonInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonSolr  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyApache Ignite is a memory-centric distributed database, caching, and processing platform for transactional, analytical, and streaming workloads, delivering in-memory speeds at petabyte scale.A Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceSearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA widely used distributed, scalable search engine based on Apache Lucene
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Key-value storeSearch engineSearch engine
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.40
Rank#270  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#96  Overall
#15  Key-value stores
#49  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score5.59
Rank#63  Overall
#7  Search engines
Score42.91
Rank#24  Overall
#3  Search engines
Websitepinot.apache.orgignite.apache.orgboilerbay.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchsolr.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgapacheignite.readme.io/­docsboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manuallearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchsolr.apache.org/­resources.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software FoundationBoiler Bay Inc.MicrosoftApache Software Foundation
Initial release20152015200220152006
Current release1.0.0, September 2023Apache Ignite 2.64.0V19.6.0, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaC++, Java, .NetJavaJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
All OS with a Java VMhostedAll OS with a Java VM inforuns as a servlet in servlet container (e.g. Tomcat, Jetty is included)
Data schemeyesyesyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesyes infoDynamic Fields enables on-the-fly addition of new fields
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyes infosupports customizable data types and automatic typing
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.yesnonoyes
Secondary indexesyesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDLnonoSolr Parallel SQL Interface
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data
Access via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
JavaC#
Java
JavaScript
Python
.Net
Erlang
Java
JavaScript
any language that supports sockets and either XML or JSON
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)nonoJava plugins
Triggersyes (cache interceptors and events)nonoyes infoUser configurable commands triggered on index changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingnoneSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes (replicated cache)noneyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)nonospark-solr: github.com/­lucidworks/­spark-solr and streaming expressions to reduce
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynono infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilitynono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsnooptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlSecurity Hooks for custom implementationsnoyes infousing Azure authenticationyes

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