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DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. BigObject vs. Greenplum vs. Hive vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. BigObject vs. Greenplum vs. Hive vs. LokiJS

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonBigObject  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyAnalytic DBMS for real-time computations and queriesAnalytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infoa hierachical model (tree) can be imposedRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.38
Rank#275  Overall
#126  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#329  Overall
#146  Relational DBMS
Score8.08
Rank#48  Overall
#31  Relational DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#260  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitepinot.apache.orgbigobject.iogreenplum.orghive.apache.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgdocs.bigobject.iodocs.greenplum.orgcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Hometechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsBigObject, Inc.Pivotal Software Inc.Apache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by Facebook
Initial release20152015200520122014
Current release1.0.0, September 20237.0.0, September 20233.1.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree community edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2Open Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaScript
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinux infodistributed as a docker-image
OS X infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows infodistributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
LinuxAll OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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.noyes infosince Version 4.2no
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesSQL-like DML and DDL statementsno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCfluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
C
Java
Perl
Python
R
C++
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresLuayesyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceView functions in JavaScript
Triggersnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnoneShardingShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationselectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infoquery execution via MapReduceyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infoautomatically between fact table and dimension tablesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnono infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/write lock on objects (tables, trees)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesno

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