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DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NSDb vs. Spark SQL vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Microsoft Azure AI Search vs. NSDb vs. Spark SQL vs. TerarkDB

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure AI Search  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencySearch-as-a-service for web and mobile app developmentScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA 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 modelRelational DBMSSearch engineTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsVector DBMS
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Score0.38
Rank#275  Overall
#126  Relational DBMS
Score5.52
Rank#59  Overall
#6  Search engines
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitepinot.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­searchnsdb.iospark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orglearn.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­searchnsdb.io/­Architecturespark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsMicrosoftApache Software FoundationByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release20152015201720142016
Current release1.0.0, September 2023V13.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ScalaScalaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherhostedLinux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesno
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexednono
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCRESTful HTTP APIgRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript
Python
Java
Scala
Java
Python
R
Scala
C++
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnononono
Triggersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud serviceShardingyes, utilizing Spark Corenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousing Azure authenticationnono

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