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DBMS > Citus vs. EsgynDB vs. JSqlDb vs. TerminusDB vs. Trafodion

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. EsgynDB vs. JSqlDb vs. TerminusDB vs. Trafodion

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonEsgynDB  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLEnterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache TrafodionJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Graph DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
RDF store
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Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.25
Rank#312  Overall
#138  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comwww.esgyn.cnjsqldb.org (offline)terminusdb.comtrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#trafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperEsgynKonrad von BackstromDataChemist Ltd.Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release20102015201820182014
Current release8.1, December 20180.8, December 201811.0.0, January 20232.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++, JavaProlog, RustC++, Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
LinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
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 functionalitynononono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyesnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetJavaScriptJavaScript
Python
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.Java Stored Proceduresfunctions in JavaScriptyesJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneGraph PartitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsMulti-source replication between multi datacentersnoneJournaling Streamsyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infousing RocksDByes infoin-memory journalingyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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