DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. chDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. SAP HANA vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. chDB vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. SAP HANA vs. Sphinx

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Description

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

An embedded SQL OLAP Engine powered by ClickHouse

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

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

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.35
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Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#152	Relational DBMS

Score	3.55
Rank	#80	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	41.32
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	5.97
Rank	#56	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

pinot.apache.org

github.com/chdb-io/chdb

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

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

doc.chdb.io

help.sap.com/hana

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Microsoft

SAP

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2015

2023

2012

2010

2001

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence 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++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

server-less

hosted

Appliance or cloud-service

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

Bun
C
C++
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

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

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

SQLScript, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

yes

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

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

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

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

yes

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