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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. atoti vs. Memcached vs. Microsoft SQL Server

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Name

Description

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

An in-memory DBMS combining transactional and analytical processing to handle the aggregation of ever-changing data.

In-memory key-value store, originally intended for caching

Microsofts flagship relational DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.38
Rank	#275	Overall
	#126	Relational DBMS

Score	0.61
Rank	#243	Overall
	#10	Object oriented DBMS

Score	18.08
Rank	#32	Overall
	#4	Key-value stores

Score	821.56
Rank	#3	Overall
	#3	Relational DBMS

Website

pinot.apache.org

atoti.io

www.memcached.org

www.microsoft.com/en-us/sql-server

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

docs.atoti.io

github.com/memcached/memcached/wiki

learn.microsoft.com/en-US/sql/sql-server

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

ActiveViam

Danga Interactive

originally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournal

Microsoft

Initial release

2015

2003

1989

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

1.6.27, May 2024

SQL Server 2022, November 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free versions available

Open Source

BSD license

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
Windows

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Multidimensional Expressions (MDX)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Proprietary protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
C++
Delphi
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Python

Transact SQL, .NET languages, R, Python and (with SQL Server 2019) Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

none

tables can be distributed across several files (horizontal partitioning); sharding through federation

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Repcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallity

yes, but depending on the SQL-Server Edition

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

yes

using SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocol

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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