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DBMS > Citus vs. DataFS vs. Hyprcubd vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. DataFS vs. Hyprcubd vs. PostGIS

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonDataFS  Xexclude from comparisonHyprcubd  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLAll data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.Serverless Time Series DBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.06
Rank#354  Overall
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comnewdatabase.comhyprcubd.com (offline)postgis.net
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comdev.mobiland.com/­Overview.xsppostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperMobiland AGHyprcubd, Inc.
Initial release201020182005
Current release8.1, December 20181.1.263, October 20223.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageCGoC
Server operating systemsLinuxWindowshosted
Data schemeyesClasses, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotime, int, uint, float, stringyes
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 infospecific XML type available, but no XML query functionalitynonoyes
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client
gRPC (https)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nouser defined functions
Triggersyesno, except callback-events from server when changes happenednoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingProprietary Sharding systemyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardWindows-Profiletoken accessyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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