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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. JanusGraph vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. SAP HANA

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Name

Description

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

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.40
Rank	#270	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	1.94
Rank	#129	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Website

pinot.apache.org

janusgraph.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

docs.janusgraph.org

help.sap.com/hana

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Microsoft

SAP

Initial release

2015

2017

2012

2010

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

0.6.3, February 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

Clojure
Java
Python

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

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

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

yes

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