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DBMS > Citus vs. Ehcache vs. LokiJS vs. Newts vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. Ehcache vs. LokiJS vs. Newts vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonEhcache  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLA widely adopted Java cache with tiered storage optionsIn-memory JavaScript DBMSTime Series DBMS based on CassandraRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score4.89
Rank#67  Overall
#8  Key-value stores
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score4.25
Rank#79  Overall
#43  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comwww.ehcache.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJSopennms.github.io/­newtswww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.html
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comwww.ehcache.org/­documentationtechfort.github.io/­LokiJSgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikihelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywhere
DeveloperTerracotta Inc, owned by Software AGOpenNMS GroupSAP infoformerly Sybase
Initial release20102009201420141992
Current release8.1, December 20183.10.0, March 202217, July 2015
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses availableOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaJavaScriptJava
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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 functionalitynononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infovia viewsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JCacheJavaScript APIHTTP REST
Java API
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaJavaScriptJavaC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noView functions in JavaScriptnoyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoby using Terracotta ServernoneSharding infobased on Cassandranone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyes infoby using Terracotta Servernoneselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroring
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyTunable Consistency (Strong, Eventual, Weak)noneEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes infosupports JTA and can work as an XA resourceno infoatomic operations within a single collection possiblenoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infousing a tiered cache-storage approachyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnononofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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