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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Microsoft Azure Cosmos DB vs. SvectorDB

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Name

Description

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

Globally distributed, horizontally scalable, multi-model database service

Serverless cloud-native vector database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Wide column store

Vector DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.35
Rank	#271	Overall
	#126	Relational DBMS

Score	23.06
Rank	#27	Overall
	#4	Document stores
	#2	Graph DBMS
	#3	Key-value stores
	#3	Wide column stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#392	Overall
	#19	Vector DBMS

Website

pinot.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/services/cosmos-db

svectordb.com

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

learn.microsoft.com/azure/cosmos-db

www.svectordb.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Microsoft

SvectorDB

Initial release

2015

2014

2023

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

JSON types

string, double, vector

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

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

OpenAPI 3.0, RESTful HTTP API, Python SDK, JavaScript / TypeScript SDK

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

Triggers

JavaScript

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

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

Transaction concepts

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

Multi-item ACID transactions with snapshot isolation within a partition

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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