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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. H2 vs. RisingWave vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

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

Full-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.

A distributed RDBMS for stream processing, wire-compatible with PostgreSQL

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.38
Rank	#275	Overall
	#126	Relational DBMS

Score	8.33
Rank	#46	Overall
	#30	Relational DBMS

Score	0.64
Rank	#238	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

pinot.apache.org

www.h2database.com

www.risingwave.com/database

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

www.h2database.com/html/main.html

docs.risingwave.com/docs/current/intro

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Thomas Mueller

RisingWave Labs

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2015

2005

2022

2019

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

2.2.220, July 2023

1.2, September 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

dual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Rust

Clojure

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

All OS with a Java VM

Docker
Linux
macOS

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Standard SQL-types and JSON

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functions

UDFs in Python or Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

With clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a database

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and Roles

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