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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. mSQL vs. PieCloudDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

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

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPP

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.40
Rank	#270	Overall
	#125	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#304	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

pinot.apache.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.openpie.com

www.postgres-xl.org

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Hughes Technologies

OpenPie

Simer Plaha

Initial release

2015

1994

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2018

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

4.4, October 2021

2.1, January 2023

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

hosted

Linux
macOS

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

JDBC
ODBC

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Java
PL/SQL
Python
R

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

yes

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

User Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Sail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities etc.,
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Licensing and pricing models

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