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DBMS > Citus vs. DolphinDB vs. Heroic vs. OceanBase vs. SingleStore

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. DolphinDB vs. Heroic vs. OceanBase vs. SingleStore

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonDolphinDB  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonOceanBase  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLDolphinDB is a high performance Time Series DBMS. It is integrated with an easy-to-use fully featured programming language and a high-volume high-velocity streaming analytics system. It offers operational simplicity, scalability, fault tolerance, and concurrency.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQLMySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Wide column store
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score2.13
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score2.72
Rank#100  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
#5  Vector DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#335  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score1.97
Rank#119  Overall
#58  Relational DBMS
Score4.02
Rank#74  Overall
#39  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comwww.dolphindb.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicen.oceanbase.comwww.singlestore.com
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comdocs.dolphindb.cn/­en/­help200/­index.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicen.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-databasedocs.singlestore.com
DeveloperDolphinDB, IncSpotifyOceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant GroupSingleStore Inc.
Initial release20102018201420102013
Current release8.1, December 2018v2.00.4, January 20224.3.0, April 20248.5, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercial infofree community version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoCommercial license availablecommercial infofree developer edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++JavaC++C++, Go
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Windows
LinuxLinux info64 bit version required
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 functionalitynonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsSQL-like query languagenoyesyes infobut no triggers and foreign keys
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
JSON over HTTP
Kafka
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
OPC DA
OPC UA
RabbitMQ
WebSocket
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
MatLab
Python
R
Rust
Ada infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
Bash
C
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.yesnoPL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible modeyes
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)Sharding infohash partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyesyesMulti-source replication using PaxosSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAdministrators, Users, GroupsAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardFine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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