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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. PostGIS vs. Quasardb vs. SQL.JS

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencySpatial extension of PostgreSQLDistributed, high-performance timeseries databasePort of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score0.40
Rank#270  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#252  Overall
#116  Relational DBMS
Websitepinot.apache.orgpostgis.netquasar.aisql.js.org
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgpostgis.net/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­mastersql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsquasardbAlon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2015200520092012
Current release1.0.0, September 20233.4.2, February 20243.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageJavaCC++JavaScript
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherBSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyesSQL-like query languageyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsJDBCHTTP APIJavaScript API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using LevelDBno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infobased on PostgreSQLCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailno

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