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DBMS > Citus vs. Datomic vs. Graphite vs. Machbase Neo vs. SAP IQ

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. Datomic vs. Graphite vs. Machbase Neo vs. SAP IQ

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonDatomic  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonSAP IQ infoformer name: Sybase IQ  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLDatomic builds on immutable values, supports point-in-time queries and uses 3rd party systems for durabilityData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called WhisperTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataColumnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS infocolumn-oriented
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#144  Overall
#66  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score2.64
Rank#108  Overall
#52  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comwww.datomic.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-webmachbase.comwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sybase-iq-big-data-management.html
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comdocs.datomic.comgraphite.readthedocs.iomachbase.com/­dbmshelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_IQ
DeveloperCognitectChris DavisMachbaseSAP, formerly Sybase
Initial release20102012200620131994
Current release8.1, December 20181.0.6735, June 2023V8.0, August 202316.1 SPS04, April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree test version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJava, ClojurePythonC
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
Unix
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data onlyyesyes
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 functionalitynononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnonoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Sockets
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Clojure
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yes infoTransaction Functionsnonoyes
TriggersyesBy using transaction functionsnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneShardingshared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsnone infoBut extensive use of caching in the application peersnoneselectable replication factorSAP/Sybase Replication Server
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoHadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infolockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing external storage systems (e.g. Cassandra, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL, Couchbase and others)yesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes inforecommended only for testing and developmentyes infovolatile and lookup tableno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonosimple password-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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