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System Properties Comparison Citus vs. Databricks vs. ObjectBox vs. SQream DB

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonDatabricks  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLThe Databricks Lakehouse Platform combines elements of data lakes and data warehouses to provide a unified view onto structured and unstructured data. It is based on Apache Spark.Lightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMS
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Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score81.08
Rank#15  Overall
#2  Document stores
#10  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comwww.databricks.comgithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
sqream.com
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comdocs.databricks.comdocs.objectbox.iodocs.sqream.com
DeveloperDatabricksObjectBox LimitedSQream Technologies
Initial release2010201320172017
Current release8.1, December 20184.0 (May 2024)2022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageCC and C++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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 functionalityyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionswith Databricks SQLnoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Proprietary native API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Python
R
Scala
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.user defined functions and aggregatesnouser defined functions in Python
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyesData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlinenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes
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Specific characteristicsSupported database models : In addition to the Document store and Relational DBMS...
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