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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Lovefield vs. Splice Machine

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Name

Description

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

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

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Rank	#270	Overall
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Score	0.29
Rank	#293	Overall
	#133	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Website

pinot.apache.org

google.github.io/lovefield

splicemachine.com

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

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

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Google

Splice Machine

Initial release

2015

2014

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

2.1.12, February 2017

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

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

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

JavaScript

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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