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System Properties Comparison Apache Doris vs. Apache Pinot vs. DuckDB vs. GBase vs. PostGIS

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Name

Description

An MPP-based analytics DBMS embracing the MySQL protocol

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

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.61
Rank	#235	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#274	Overall
	#128	Relational DBMS

Score	5.61
Rank	#60	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	1.11
Rank	#173	Overall
	#78	Relational DBMS

Score	20.16
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

doris.apache.org
github.com/apache/doris

Technical documentation

github.com/apache/doris/wiki

docs.pinot.apache.org

duckdb.org/docs

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation, originally contributed from Baidu

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Initial release

2017

2015

2018

2004

2005

Current release

1.2.2, February 2023

1.0.0, September 2023

1.0.0, June 2024

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C, Java, Python

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
MySQL client

JDBC

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Java

Go
Java
Python

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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