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System Properties Comparison Citus vs. EsgynDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. SQream DB

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Name

Description

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

Enterprise-class SQL-on-Hadoop solution, powered by Apache Trafodion

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

a GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.21
Rank	#118	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	0.16
Rank	#329	Overall
	#146	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.70
Rank	#227	Overall
	#104	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.citusdata.com

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

docs.sqream.com

Developer

Esgyn

SQream Technologies

Initial release

2010

2015

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2017

Current release

8.1, December 2018

10 R1, October 2018

2022.1.6, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Java

C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI Standard SQL Types

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

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

.Net
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

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

C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

Java Stored Procedures

user defined functions

user defined functions in Python

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

horizontal and vertical 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 between multi datacenters

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

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

MVCC

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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