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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. PostgreSQL vs. YDB

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Name

Description

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

Widely used open source RDBMS

Developed as objectoriented DBMS (Postgres), gradually enhanced with 'standards' like SQL

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

with object oriented extensions, e.g.: user defined types/functions and inheritance. Handling of key/value pairs with hstore module.

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Apache Age
Spatial DBMS
Vector DBMS

with pgvector extension

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Score	0.50
Rank	#248	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	674.32
Rank	#4	Overall
	#4	Relational DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#228	Overall
	#38	Document stores
	#105	Relational DBMS

Website

pinot.apache.org

www.postgresql.org

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

www.postgresql.org/docs

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

PostgreSQL Global Development Group

www.postgresql.org/developer

Yandex

Initial release

2015

1989

1989: Postgres, 1996: PostgreSQL

2019

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

16.4, August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OpenBSD
OS X
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

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

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

partitioning by range, list and (since PostgreSQL 11) by hash

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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