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DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. Elasticsearch vs. LokiJS vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Elasticsearch vs. LokiJS vs. PostGIS

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonElasticsearch  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyA distributed, RESTful modern search and analytics engine based on Apache Lucene infoElasticsearch lets you perform and combine many types of searches such as structured, unstructured, geo, and metricIn-memory JavaScript DBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineDocument storeSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.40
Rank#270  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
Score135.35
Rank#7  Overall
#1  Search engines
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitepinot.apache.orgwww.elastic.co/­elasticsearchgithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSpostgis.net
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgwww.elastic.co/­guide/­en/­elasticsearch/­reference/­current/­index.htmltechfort.github.io/­LokiJSpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsElastic
Initial release2015201020142005
Current release1.0.0, September 20238.6, January 20233.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoElastic LicenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaJavaScriptC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherAll OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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.nonoyes
Secondary indexesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexedyes infovia viewsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languagenoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJava API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
JavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
.Net
Groovy
Community Contributed Clients
Java
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesView functions in JavaScriptuser defined functions
Triggersyes infoby using the 'percolation' featureyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsES-Hadoop Connectoryesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allnoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanono infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.Memcached and Redis integrationyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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