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DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. Heroic vs. PostGIS vs. SpatiaLite

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

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
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 ElasticSearchSpatial extension of PostgreSQLSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score0.38
Rank#275  Overall
#126  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitepinot.apache.orggithub.com/­spotify/­heroicpostgis.netwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgspotify.github.io/­heroicpostgis.net/­documentationwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsSpotifyAlessandro Furieri
Initial release2015201420052008
Current release1.0.0, September 20233.4.2, February 20245.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open 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 languageJavaJavaCC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherserver-less
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyesyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
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
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID
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 controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLno

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