DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. etcd vs. H2GIS vs. jBASE vs. RocksDB

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. etcd vs. H2GIS vs. jBASE vs. RocksDB

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Name

Description

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

A distributed reliable key-value store

Spatial extension of H2

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.40
Rank	#270	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	7.25
Rank	#54	Overall
	#5	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	1.41
Rank	#159	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Website

pinot.apache.org

etcd.io
github.com/etcd-io/etcd

www.h2gis.org

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

rocksdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

etcd.io/docs
github.com/etcd-io/etcd/tree/master/Documentation

www.h2gis.org/docs/home

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

CNRS

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

Facebook, Inc.

Initial release

2015

2013

1991

2013

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

3.4, August 2019

5.7

8.11.4, April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

LGPL 3.0

commercial

Open Source

BSD

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

FreeBSD
Linux
Windows

experimental

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

gRPC
JSON over HTTP

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

C++ API
Java API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl

Java

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

based on H2

yes

Triggers

yes, watching key changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

yes

based on H2

yes

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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 rights can be defined down to the item level

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