DBMS > Citus vs. Dgraph vs. Machbase Neo vs. SpaceTime vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. Dgraph vs. Machbase Neo vs. SpaceTime vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

Distributed and scalable native Graph DBMS

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	2.13
Rank	#117	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	1.39
Rank	#155	Overall
	#15	Graph DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#348	Overall
	#34	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.citusdata.com

dgraph.io

machbase.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

docs.citusdata.com

dgraph.io/docs

machbase.com/dbms

Developer

Dgraph Labs, Inc.

Machbase

Mireo

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2010

2016

2013

2020

2009

Current release

8.1, December 2018

V8.0, August 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free test version available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

GraphQL query language
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
HTTP API

gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

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

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

C#
C++
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

yes

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

Synchronous replication via Raft

selectable replication factor

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

volatile and lookup table

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Planned for future releases

simple password-based access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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