DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. MySQL vs. Rockset vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. ScyllaDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. MySQL vs. Rockset vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. ScyllaDB

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Name

Description

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

A scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store

Relational DBMS

Wide column store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS
Search engine

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

Key-value store

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Score	0.38
Rank	#275	Overall
	#126	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#212	Overall
	#36	Document stores

Score	35.09
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	4.08
Rank	#76	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Website

pinot.apache.org

www.mysql.com

rockset.com

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.scylladb.com

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.rockset.com

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

docs.scylladb.com

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Rockset

SAP, Sybase

ScyllaDB

Initial release

2015

1995

2019

1987

2015

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

16.0

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

C++

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

dynamic typing

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.

yes

ingestion from XML files supported

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

cluster global secondary indices

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

with proprietary extensions

Read-only SQL queries, including JOINs

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Java and Transact-SQL

yes, Lua

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Automatic sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

in-memory tables

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per object

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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