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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Heroic vs. IRONdb vs. SpatiaLite

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicitySpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.38
Rank#275  Overall
#126  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitepinot.apache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsSpotifyCirconus LLC.Alessandro Furieri
Initial release2015201420172008
Current release1.0.0, September 2023V0.10.20, January 20185.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaJavaC and C++C++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinuxserver-less
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in Luano
Triggersnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnono

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