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DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Postgres-XL vs. PouchDB vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. Postgres-XL vs. PouchDB vs. STSdb

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure SQL Database infoformerly SQL Azure  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyDatabase as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL ServerBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.38
Rank#275  Overall
#126  Relational DBMS
Score76.78
Rank#16  Overall
#11  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitepinot.apache.orgazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­products/­azure-sql/­databasewww.postgres-xl.orgpouchdb.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgdocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­azure-sqlwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationpouchdb.com/­guides
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsMicrosoftApache Software FoundationSTS Soft SC
Initial release201520102014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB20122011
Current release1.0.0, September 2023V1210 R1, October 20187.1.1, June 20194.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageJavaC++CJavaScriptC#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherhostedLinux
macOS
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.yesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia viewsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScriptC#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresTransact SQLuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioningSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes, with always 3 replicas availableMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infoMVCCnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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