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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. gStore vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics

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Name

Description

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

A native Graph DBMS to store and maintain very large RDF datasets.

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Elastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL Server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
RDF store

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.35
Rank	#274	Overall
	#128	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#367	Overall
	#37	Graph DBMS
	#18	RDF stores

Score	24.97
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	18.98
Rank	#31	Overall
	#19	Relational DBMS

Website

pinot.apache.org

en.gstore.cn

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

azure.microsoft.com/services/synapse-analytics

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

en.gstore.cn/#/enDocs

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

docs.microsoft.com/azure/synapse-analytics

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Microsoft

Initial release

2015

2016

2014

2016

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

1.2, November 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux

hosted

Data scheme

yes

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

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

All properties auto-indexed by default

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

DocumentDB API
Graph API (Gremlin)
MongoDB API
RESTful HTTP API
Table API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
MongoDB client drivers written for various programming languages
Python

C#
Java
PHP

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

JavaScript

Transact SQL

Triggers

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Integration with Hadoop/HDInsight on Azure*

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Bounded Staleness
Consistent Prefix
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable on request level
Session Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/synapse-analytics/sql-data-warehouse/sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints

Transaction concepts

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

yes

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

User concepts

Access control

Users, roles and permissions, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) supported

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

yes

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