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Name

Description

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

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

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Rank	#314	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

pinot.apache.org

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2015

2019

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

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, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

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