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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Firebase Realtime Database vs. GeoMesa vs. Splice Machine

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonFirebase Realtime Database  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyCloud-hosted realtime document store. iOS, Android, and JavaScript clients share one Realtime Database instance and automatically receive updates with the newest data.GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.38
Rank#275  Overall
#126  Relational DBMS
Score13.64
Rank#39  Overall
#6  Document stores
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Websitepinot.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­products/­realtime-databasewww.geomesa.orgsplicemachine.com
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgfirebase.google.com/­docs/­databasewww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlsplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsGoogle infoacquired by Google 2014CCRi and othersSplice Machine
Initial release2015201220142014
Current release1.0.0, September 20235.0.0, May 20243.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherhostedLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCAndroid
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored procedureslimited functionality with using 'rules'noyes infoJava
TriggersCallbacks are triggered when data changesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningdepending on storage layerShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesdepending on storage layerMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesYes, via Full Spark Integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infoif the client is offline
Immediate Consistency infoif the client is online
depending on storage layerImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datayesnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
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.depending on storage layeryes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes, based on authentication and database rulesyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storageAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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