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DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. MonetDB vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. MonetDB vs. Quasardb

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencySearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentA relational database management system that stores data in columnsDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.38
Rank#275  Overall
#126  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitepinot.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchwww.monetdb.orgquasar.ai
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orglearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsMicrosoftMonetDB BVquasardb
Initial release2015201520042009
Current release1.0.0, September 2023V1Dec2023 (11.49), December 20233.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherhostedFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBCRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in SQL, C, Rno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceSharding via remote tablesSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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