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System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Citus vs. GeoMesa vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

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Website

Technical documentation

docs.citusdata.com

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

CCRi and others

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2015

2010

2014

2006

Current release

8.1, December 2018

5.0.1, July 2024

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

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

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
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

none

Sharding

depending on storage layer

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

depending on storage layer

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

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.

depending on storage layer

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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