Featured Products: Milvus RaimaDB Neo4j SingleStore Datastax Astra

DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. JaguarDB vs. Lovefield vs. SQL.JS

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. JaguarDB vs. Lovefield vs. SQL.JS

Please select another system to include it in the comparison.

Editorial information provided by DB-Engines

Name

Description

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

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.40
Rank	#270	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores
	#13	Vector DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#252	Overall
	#116	Relational DBMS

Website

pinot.apache.org

www.jaguardb.com

google.github.io/lovefield

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

DataJaguar, Inc.

Google

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2015

2015

2014

2012

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

3.3 July 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

Providers of DBaaS offerings, please contact us to be listed.

Implementation language

Java

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

JavaScript

JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

yes

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes

yes

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.

no

no

no

Secondary indexes

yes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

no

no

no

Triggers

no

Using read-only observers

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

none

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

no

yes

yes

Transaction concepts

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

no

ACID

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

no

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

rights management via user accounts

no

no

More information provided by the system vendor

We invite representatives of system vendors to contact us for updating and extending the system information,
and for displaying vendor-provided information such as key customers, competitive advantages and market metrics.

Related products and services

We invite representatives of vendors of related products to contact us for presenting information about their offerings here.

More resources

DB-Engines blog posts

New kids on the block: database management systems implemented in JavaScript
1 December 2014, Matthias Gelbmann

Recent citations in the news

StarTree broadly enhances Apache Pinot-based analytics platform
8 May 2024, SiliconANGLE News

StarTree Finds Apache Pinot the Right Vintage for IT Observability
8 May 2024, Datanami

StarTree Makes Observability Case for Apache Pinot Database
8 May 2024, DevOps.com

How Uber Accomplishes Job Counting At Scale
22 May 2024, Uber

Open source Apache Pinot advances as StarTree boosts real-time analytics and observability
8 May 2024, VentureBeat

provided by Google News

9 Best JavaScript and TypeScript ORMs for 2024 — SitePoint
22 March 2023, SitePoint

Execute millions of SQL statements in milliseconds in the browser with WebAssembly and Web Workers.
14 January 2017, hackernoon.com

SQLite On The Web: Absurd-sql
24 August 2021, Hackaday

In Praise Of SQLite
28 July 2022, iProgrammer

LokiJS - A JavaScript Database
18 November 2014, iProgrammer

provided by Google News

Share this page

Featured Products

Present your product here