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

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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

A typo-tolerant, in-memory search engine optimized for instant search-as-you-type experiences and developer productivity

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	0.07
Rank	#376	Overall
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Score	4.04
Rank	#77	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	44.27
Rank	#23	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	0.76
Rank	#219	Overall
	#14	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

typesense.org

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

doc.chdb.io

help.sap.com/hana

typesense.org/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Microsoft

SAP

Initial release

2015

2023

2012

2010

2015

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

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

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

pre-defined schema optional

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Close to ANSI SQL (SQL/JSON + extensions)

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

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

.Net

community maintained
Clojure

community maintained
Dart

community maintained
Go

community maintained
Java

community maintained
JavaScript
Perl

community maintained
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust

community maintained
Swift

community maintained

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

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

Multi-source replication using RAFT

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

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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