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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. FeatureBase vs. Manticore Search vs. Memcached vs. PostgreSQL

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonPostgreSQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyReal-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingWidely used open source RDBMS infoDeveloped as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSearch engineKey-value storeRelational DBMS infowith object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar LibraryDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS infowith pgvector extension
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.36
Rank#270  Overall
#126  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#302  Overall
#136  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#300  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score16.99
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score654.34
Rank#4  Overall
#4  Relational DBMS
Websitepinot.apache.orgwww.featurebase.commanticoresearch.comwww.memcached.orgwww.postgresql.org
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgdocs.featurebase.commanual.manticoresearch.comgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikiwww.postgresql.org/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsManticore SoftwareDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalPostgreSQL Global Development Group infowww.postgresql.org/­developer
Initial release20152017201720031989 info1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL
Current release1.0.0, September 20232022, May 20226.0, February 20231.6.29, June 202416.4, August 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoBSD
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaGoC++CC
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows
Data schemeyesyesFixed schemaschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleannoyes
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.noCan index from XMLyes infospecific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.
Secondary indexesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageSQL queriesSQL-like query languagenoyes infostandard with numerous extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBCgRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Proprietary protocolADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Java
Python
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnouser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.
Triggersnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednonepartitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesSynchronous replication based on Galera librarynone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitySource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensions
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes, using Linux fsyncyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.noyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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