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DBMS > Citus vs. Dgraph vs. H2GIS vs. NuoDB vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. Dgraph vs. H2GIS vs. NuoDB vs. XTDB

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonDgraph  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLDistributed and scalable native Graph DBMSSpatial extension of H2NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.53
Rank#152  Overall
#15  Graph DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#368  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score0.94
Rank#197  Overall
#92  Relational DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.citusdata.comdgraph.iowww.h2gis.orgwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasegithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comdgraph.io/­docswww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homedoc.nuodb.comwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperDgraph Labs, Inc.CNRSDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Juxt Ltd.
Initial release20102016201320132019
Current release8.1, December 20181.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPL 3.0commercial infolimited edition freeOpen Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCGoJavaC++Clojure
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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 indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoyesyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Java.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Clojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noyes infobased on H2Java, SQLno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyesnonedata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtennone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsSynchronous replication via Raftyes infobased on H2yes infoManaged transparently by NuoDByes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID infotunable commit protocolACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes infoMVCCyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infoTemporary table
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoPlanned for future releasesyes infobased on H2Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

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