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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Badger vs. Postgres-XL vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

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

An embeddable, persistent, simple and fast Key-Value Store, written purely in Go.

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.40
Rank	#270	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#331	Overall
	#49	Key-value stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

pinot.apache.org

github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.postgres-xl.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

godoc.org/github.com/dgraph-io/badger

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

DGraph Labs

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2015

2017

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2011

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

10 R1, October 2018

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

BSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C#
Java

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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