DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Raima Database Manager vs. SAP HANA vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. Raima Database Manager vs. SAP HANA vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

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

A multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodes

RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database server

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

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with SAP Hana, Enterprise Edition
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.40
Rank	#270	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	2.95
Rank	#100	Overall
	#17	Document stores
	#17	Key-value stores
	#50	Relational DBMS

Score	0.46
Rank	#259	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS
	#22	Time Series DBMS

Score	44.69
Rank	#22	Overall
	#16	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

pinot.apache.org

www.oracle.com/database/nosql/technologies/nosql

raima.com

www.sap.com/products/hana.html

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/nosql-database/index.html

docs.raima.com

help.sap.com/hana

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Oracle

Raima Inc.

SAP

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2015

2011

1984

2010

1998

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

23.3, December 2023

15, June 2021

2.0 SPS07 (April 4, 2023), April 2023

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Proprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

also available as a cloud based service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86

Android
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

Appliance or cloud-service

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Support Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

Exporting/Importing of XML structures possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

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

.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specification

SQLScript, R

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

yes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Electable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table feature

Source-replica replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

configurable

ACID within a storage node (=shard)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

off heap cache

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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