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DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. Postgres-XL vs. PouchDB vs. Splice Machine vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Postgres-XL vs. PouchDB vs. Splice Machine vs. STSdb

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument 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
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitepinot.apache.orgwww.postgres-xl.orgpouchdb.comsplicemachine.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationpouchdb.com/­guidessplicemachine.com/­how-it-works
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsApache Software FoundationSplice MachineSTS Soft SC
Initial release20152014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB201220142011
Current release1.0.0, September 202310 R1, October 20187.1.1, June 20193.1, March 20214.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen SourceOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCJavaScriptJavaC#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherLinux
macOS
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes 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.yes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languageyes infodistributed, parallel query executionnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsJDBCADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScriptC#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptyes infoJavano
Triggersyesyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioninghorizontal partitioningSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoMVCCnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardno

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