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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Hawkular Metrics vs. Memcached vs. PostGIS vs. TypeDB

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonHawkular Metrics  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTypeDB infoformerly named Grakn  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyHawkular metrics is the metric storage of the Red Hat sponsored Hawkular monitoring system. It is based on Cassandra.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingSpatial extension of PostgreSQLTypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value storeSpatial DBMSGraph DBMS
Relational DBMS infoOften described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.40
Rank#270  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#379  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score19.42
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.65
Rank#234  Overall
#20  Graph DBMS
#107  Relational DBMS
Websitepinot.apache.orgwww.hawkular.orgwww.memcached.orgpostgis.nettypedb.com
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgwww.hawkular.org/­hawkular-metrics/­docs/­user-guidegithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikipostgis.net/­documentationtypedb.com/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsCommunity supported by Red HatDanga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalVaticle
Initial release20152014200320052016
Current release1.0.0, September 20231.6.25, March 20243.4.2, February 20242.26.3, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoBSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoGPL Version 3, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaCCJava
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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.noyesno
Secondary indexesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenonoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP RESTProprietary protocolgRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Go
Java
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsno
Triggersyes infovia Hawkular Alertingnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningSharding infobased on Cassandranoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infoby using Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandranone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallityyes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replication infoby using Cassandra
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infoby using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno infosubstituted by the relationship feature
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes infoat REST API level; other APIs in progress
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Specific characteristicsTypeDB is a polymorphic database with a conceptual data model, a strong subtyping...
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Competitive advantagesTypeDB provides a new level of expressivity, extensibility, interoperability, and...
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Typical application scenariosLife sciences : TypeDB makes working with biological data much easier and accelerates...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache f or language drivers, and AGPL and Commercial for the database server. The...
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