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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Datomic vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. Graphite

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.Data logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
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Score0.40
Rank#270  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#150  Overall
#69  Relational DBMS
Score14.29
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score4.57
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Websitepinot.apache.orgwww.datomic.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasegithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-web
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgdocs.datomic.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasegraphite.readthedocs.io
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsCognitectGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014Chris Davis
Initial release2015201220122006
Current release1.0.0, September 20231.0.6735, June 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infolimited edition freecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageJavaJava, ClojurePython
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
Unix
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data only
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCRESTful HTTP APIAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Sockets
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Clojure
Java
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoTransaction Functionslimited functionality with using 'rules'no
TriggersBy using transaction functionsCallbacks are triggered when data changesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolocking
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes inforecommended only for testing and development
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes, based on authentication and database rulesno

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