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DBMS > Apache Drill vs. Apache Pinot vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. PouchDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Drill vs. Apache Pinot vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. PouchDB

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NameApache Drill  Xexclude from comparisonApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionSchema-free SQL Query Engine for Hadoop, NoSQL and Cloud StorageRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB
Primary database modelDocument store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument storeDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.95
Rank#127  Overall
#23  Document stores
#60  Relational DBMS
Score0.40
Rank#270  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Websitedrill.apache.orgpinot.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasepouchdb.com
Technical documentationdrill.apache.org/­docsdocs.pinot.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasepouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperApache Software FoundationApache Software Foundation and contributorsGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Apache Software Foundation
Initial release2012201520122012
Current release1.20.3, January 20231.0.0, September 20237.1.1, June 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK11 or higherhostedserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL SELECT statement is SQL:2003 compliantSQL-like query languagenono
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesC++Go
Java
Python
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionslimited functionality with using 'rules'View functions in JavaScript
TriggersnoCallbacks are triggered when data changesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentDepending on the underlying data sourceyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Depending on the underlying data sourceyes
User concepts infoAccess controlDepending on the underlying data sourceyes, based on authentication and database rulesno

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