DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. Newts vs. Riak TS vs. Snowflake vs. Typesense

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Newts vs. Riak TS vs. Snowflake vs. Typesense

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Name

Description

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

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

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

Primary database model

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Score	0.40
Rank	#270	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Score	121.33
Rank	#9	Overall
	#6	Relational DBMS

Score	0.79
Rank	#210	Overall
	#14	Search engines

Website

pinot.apache.org

opennms.github.io/newts

www.snowflake.com

typesense.org

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

typesense.org/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

OpenNMS Group

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Initial release

2015

2014

2015

2014

2015

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes, limited

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

Java

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

.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

Erlang

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

similar concept for controling cloud resources

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

selectable replication factor

yes

Multi-source replication using RAFT

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

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