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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Couchbase vs. OpenTSDB vs. OushuDB

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Name

Description

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

A distributed document store with integrated cache, a powerful search engine, in-built operational and analytical capabilities, and an embedded mobile database

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Key-value store

originating from the former Membase product and supporting the Memcached protocol
Spatial DBMS

using the Geocouch extension
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	0.40
Rank	#270	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	17.30
Rank	#36	Overall
	#5	Document stores

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#363	Overall
	#154	Relational DBMS

Website

pinot.apache.org

www.couchbase.com

opentsdb.net

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

docs.couchbase.com

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

www.oushu.com/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Couchbase, Inc.

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Oushu

Initial release

2015

2011

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

Server: 7.2, June 2023; Mobile: 3.1, March 2022; Couchbase Capella (DBaaS), June 2023

4.0.1, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Business Source License (BSL 1.1); Commercial licenses also available

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, C++, Go and Erlang

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

SQL++, extends ANSI SQL to JSON for operational, transactional, and analytic use cases

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

CLI Client
HTTP REST
Kafka Connector
Native language bindings for CRUD, Query, Search and Analytics APIs
Spark Connector
Spring Data

HTTP API
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

.Net
C
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Kotlin
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Functions and timers in JavaScript and UDFs in Java, Python, SQL++

yes

Triggers

yes

via the TAP protocol

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Automatic Sharding

Sharding

based on HBase

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

including cross data center replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

selectable on a per-operation basis

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

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.

yes

Ephemeral buckets

User concepts

Access control

User and Administrator separation with password-based and LDAP integrated Authentication. Role-base access control.

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

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