DB-EnginesInfluxDB: Focus on building software with an easy-to-use serverless, scalable time series platformEnglish
Deutsch
Knowledge Base of Relational and NoSQL Database Management Systemsprovided by solid IT

DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. Citus vs. Galaxybase vs. SiteWhere

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Citus vs. Galaxybase vs. SiteWhere

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines
NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonCitus  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonSiteWhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformM2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.40
Rank#270  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#356  Overall
#35  Time Series DBMS
Websitepinot.apache.orgwww.citusdata.comgalaxybase.comgithub.com/­sitewhere/­sitewhere
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgdocs.citusdata.comsitewhere1.sitewhere.io/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司SiteWhere
Initial release2015201020172010
Current release1.0.0, September 20238.1, December 2018Nov 20, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialOpen Source infoCommon Public Attribution License Version 1.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.
Implementation languageJavaCC and JavaJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesStrong typed schemapredefined scheme
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.yes infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
HTTP REST
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Go
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.user defined procedures and functions
Triggersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingShardingSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources
Apache PinotCitusGalaxybaseSiteWhere
Recent citations in the news

Real-Time Analytics Solution for Usage-Based API Billing and Metering
8 May 2024, Towards Data Science

StarTree broadly enhances Apache Pinot-based analytics platform
8 May 2024, SiliconANGLE News

StarTree Finds Apache Pinot the Right Vintage for IT Observability
8 May 2024, Datanami

StarTree Makes Observability Case for Apache Pinot Database
8 May 2024, DevOps.com

How Uber Accomplishes Job Counting At Scale
22 May 2024, Uber

provided by Google News

Ubicloud wants to build an open source alternative to AWS
5 March 2024, TechCrunch

Ubicloud reels in $16M for its open-source cloud platform
5 March 2024, SiliconANGLE News

Microsoft acquires Citus Data, re-affirming its commitment to Open Source and accelerating Azure PostgreSQL ...
24 January 2019, Microsoft

Microsoft Benchmarks Distributed PostgreSQL DBs
10 July 2023, Datanami

Distributed PostgreSQL Benchmarks: Azure Cosmos DB, CockroachDB, and YugabyteDB
8 July 2023, InfoQ.com

provided by Google News

SiteWhere: An open platform for connected devices
11 July 2017, Open Source For You

Ten Popular IoT Platforms You Should be Aware of
27 March 2023, Open Source For You

11 Best Open source IoT Platforms To Develop Smart Projects
9 March 2023, H2S Media

provided by Google News



Share this page

Featured Products

Milvus logo

Vector database designed for GenAI, fully equipped for enterprise implementation.
Try Managed Milvus for Free

Neo4j logo

See for yourself how a graph database can make your life easier.
Use Neo4j online for free.

RaimaDB logo

RaimaDB, embedded database for mission-critical applications. When performance, footprint and reliability matters.
Try RaimaDB for free.

SingleStore logo

The database to transact, analyze and contextualize your data in real time.
Try it today.

Datastax Astra logo

Bring all your data to Generative AI applications with vector search enabled by the most scalable
vector database available.
Try for Free

Present your product here