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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. LokiJS

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Name

Description

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Score	0.39
Rank	#262	Overall
	#121	Relational DBMS

Score	0.41
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores

Website

pinot.apache.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Initial release

2015

2014

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

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

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

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