DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Milvus vs. SAP HANA vs. SingleStore

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. Milvus vs. SAP HANA vs. SingleStore

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Name

Description

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

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

A DBMS designed for efficient storage of vector data and vector similarity searches

In-memory, column based data store. Available as appliance or cloud service

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.38
Rank	#275	Overall
	#126	Relational DBMS

Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	2.78
Rank	#103	Overall
	#4	Vector DBMS

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	5.38
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

pinot.apache.org

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

milvus.io

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.singlestore.com

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

milvus.io/docs/overview.md

help.sap.com/hana

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Microsoft

SAP

SingleStore Inc.

Initial release

2015

2012

2019

2010

2013

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

2.4.4, May 2024

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

also available as a cloud based service

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Implementation language

Java

C++, Go

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

hosted

Linux
macOS

10.14 or later
Windows

with WSL 2 enabled

Appliance or cloud-service

Linux

64 bit version required

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

Sharding

yes

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

yes

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Bounded Staleness
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Session Consistency
Tunable Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

yes

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

Highly available, versatile, and robust with millisecond latency. Supports batch...
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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Milvus is trusted by thousands of enterprises, including PayPal, eBay, IKEA, LINE,...
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Market metrics

As of January 2024, 25k+ GitHub stars 10M+ downloads and installations 3k+ enterprise...
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Customers in various industries worldwide including US and International Industry...
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Licensing and pricing models

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