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DBMS > Citus vs. Derby vs. GeoSpock vs. Graphite

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. Derby vs. GeoSpock vs. Graphite

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonDerby infooften called Apache Derby, originally IBM Cloudscape; contained in the Java SDK as JavaDB  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonGraphite  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleData logging and graphing tool for time series data infoThe storage layer (fixed size database) is called Whisper
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMS
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Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score4.60
Rank#70  Overall
#38  Relational DBMS
Score4.83
Rank#67  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comdb.apache.org/­derbygeospock.comgithub.com/­graphite-project/­graphite-web
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comdb.apache.org/­derby/­manuals/­index.htmlgraphite.readthedocs.io
DeveloperApache Software FoundationGeoSpockChris Davis
Initial release201019972006
Current release8.1, December 201810.17.1.0, November 20232.0, September 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache version 2commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageCJavaJava, JavascriptPython
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMhostedLinux
Unix
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data only
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 functionalityyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyestemporal, categoricalno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyesANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)no
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBCJDBCHTTP API
Sockets
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaJavaScript (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.Java Stored Proceduresnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infolocking
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per tableno

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