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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. LokiJS vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.40
Rank	#270	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#264	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

pinot.apache.org

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2015

2014

2015

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

3.0.0, September 2022

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

Erlang

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

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

Linux
OS X

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JavaScript API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

JavaScript

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

links between datasets can be stored

Transaction concepts

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

atomic operations within a single collection possible

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

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.

yes

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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