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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. H2GIS vs. HBase vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of H2

Wide-column store based on Apache Hadoop and on concepts of BigTable

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Score	0.40
Rank	#270	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	30.50
Rank	#26	Overall
	#2	Wide column stores

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

hbase.apache.org/book.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

CNRS

Apache Software Foundation

Apache top-level project, originally developed by Powerset

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

2015

2013

2008

2018

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

2.3.4, January 2021

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux
Unix
Windows

using Cygwin

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free, schema definition possible

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

options to bring your own types, AVRO

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
Thrift

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

Java

C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Scala

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

Coprocessors in Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

based on H2

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Single row ACID (across millions of columns)

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

yes

based on H2

Access Control Lists (ACL) for RBAC, integration with Apache Ranger for RBAC & ABAC

Role-based access control

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