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DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. Databricks vs. IRONdb vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Databricks vs. IRONdb vs. PostGIS

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicitySpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.38
Rank#275  Overall
#126  Relational DBMS
Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitepinot.apache.orgwww.databricks.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/postgis.net
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgdocs.databricks.comdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsDatabricksCirconus LLC.
Initial release2015201320172005
Current release1.0.0, September 2023V0.10.20, January 20183.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaC and C++C
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherhostedLinux
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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.yesnoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagewith Databricks SQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Python
R
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions and aggregatesyes, in Luauser defined functions
Triggersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infobased on PostgreSQL
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Apache PinotDatabricksIRONdbPostGIS
Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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