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System Properties Comparison Citus vs. EDB Postgres vs. JanusGraph vs. Machbase Neo vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

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

The EDB Postgres Platform is an enterprise-class data management platform based on the open source database PostgreSQL with flexible deployment options and Oracle compatibility features, complemented by tool kits for management, integration, and migration.

A Graph DBMS optimized for distributed clusters

It was forked from the latest code base of Titan in January 2017

TimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigData

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.15
Rank	#117	Overall
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Score	1.91
Rank	#130	Overall
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#125	Overall
	#12	Graph DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#337	Overall
	#30	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#373	Overall
	#157	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.citusdata.com

www.enterprisedb.com/docs

docs.janusgraph.org

machbase.com/dbms

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

EnterpriseDB

Linux Foundation; originally developed as Titan by Aurelius

Machbase

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2010

2005

2017

2013

2006

Current release

8.1, December 2018

14, December 2021

0.6.3, February 2023

V8.0, August 2023

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

commercial

BSD for PostgreSQL-components

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free test version available

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

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

yes

specific XML-type available, but no XML query functionality.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

yes

standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

Java API
TinkerPop Blueprints
TinkerPop Frames
TinkerPop Gremlin
TinkerPop Rexster

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

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Clojure
Java
Python

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP

via ODBC
Python
R

via ODBC
Scala

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

user defined functions

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

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

by hash, list or range

yes

depending on the used storage backend (e.g. Cassandra, HBase, BerkeleyDB)

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

Multi-source replication

yes

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via Faunus, a graph analytics engine

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Supports various storage backends: Cassandra, HBase, Berkeley DB, Akiban, Hazelcast

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

User authentification and security via Rexster Graph Server

simple password-based access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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