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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. GeoSpock vs. Lovefield vs. TimesTen

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Name

GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.40
Rank	#270	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

pinot.apache.org

geospock.com

google.github.io/lovefield

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

GeoSpock

Google

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2015

2014

1998

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

2.0, September 2019

2.1.12, February 2017

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Java, Javascript

JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

hosted

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

JavaScript

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

PL/SQL

Triggers

Using read-only observers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users can be defined per table

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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