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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. GreptimeDB vs. MariaDB

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonGreptimeDB  Xexclude from comparisonMariaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyAn open source Time Series DBMS built for increased scalability, high performance and efficiencyMySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS infowith OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.35
Rank#271  Overall
#126  Relational DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#334  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score83.77
Rank#15  Overall
#10  Relational DBMS
Websitepinot.apache.orggreptime.commariadb.com infoSite of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org infoSite of MariaDB Foundation
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgdocs.greptime.commariadb.com/­kb/­en/­library
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsGreptime Inc.MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server) infoThe lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL
Initial release201520222009 infoFork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995
Current release1.0.0, September 202311.5.2, August 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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STACKIT MariaDB offers MariaDB in a fully managed version in enterprise grade, 100% GDPR-compliant.
Implementation languageJavaRustC and C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherAndroid
Docker
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows infoColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free, schema definition possibleyes infoDynamic columns are supported
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes
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.noyes
Secondary indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBCgRPC
HTTP API
JDBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPythonyes infoPL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3
Triggersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingseveral options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infonot for in-memory storage engine
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infowith MEMORY storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlSimple rights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Apache PinotGreptimeDBMariaDB
Specific characteristicsGreptimeDB is a SQL & Python-enabled timeseries database system built from scratch...
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MariaDB is the most powerful open source relational database – modern SQL and JSON...
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Competitive advantages- Inherits advantages of Rust, such as excellent performance, memory safe, resource...
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MariaDB Servers have many features unavailable in other open source relational databases....
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Typical application scenariosFor IoT industries, GreptimeDB can seamless integrate with message queues and other...
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Web, SaaS and Cloud operational applications that require high availability, scalability...
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Key customersGreptime's clients span multiple sectors including IoT, connected vehicles, and energy...
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Deutsche Bank, DBS Bank, Nasdaq, Red Hat, ServiceNow, Verizon and Walgreens Featured...
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Market metricsGreptimeDB has garnered global recognition by topping GitHub trends following its...
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MariaDB is the default database in the LAMP stack supplied by Red Hat and SUSE Linux,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsGreptimeDB: open source, distributed, cloud-native TSDB; supports Hybrid Time-series...
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MariaDB plc subscriptions cover our free, open source database, Community Server,...
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