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DBMS > Apache Pinot vs. Realm vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Realm vs. Spark SQL vs. STSdb vs. TimesTen

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NameApache Pinot  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionRealtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latencyA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score0.40
Rank#270  Overall
#125  Relational DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitepinot.apache.orgrealm.iospark.apache.org/­sqlgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationdocs.pinot.apache.orgrealm.io/­docsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmldocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperApache Software Foundation and contributorsRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Apache Software FoundationSTS Soft SCOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20152014201420111998
Current release1.0.0, September 20233.5.0 ( 2.13), September 20234.0.8, September 201511 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaScalaC#
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java JDK11 or higherAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
WindowsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBCJDBC
ODBC
.NET Client APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesGo
Java
Python
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
Java
Python
R
Scala
C#
Java
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessarynonoPL/SQL
Triggersyes infoChange Listenersnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioningnoneyes, utilizing Spark Corenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenonenoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoIn-Memory realmnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlyesnonofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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