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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. GBase vs. PouchDB vs. Quasardb

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Name

Description

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.38
Rank	#275	Overall
	#126	Relational DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

pouchdb.com/guides

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Apache Software Foundation

quasardb

Initial release

2015

2004

2012

2009

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

7.1.1, June 2019

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C, Java, Python

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

JavaScript

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

yes

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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