DBMS > Citus vs. EventStoreDB vs. GBase vs. Splice Machine vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. EventStoreDB vs. GBase vs. Splice Machine vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

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

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Event Store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	2.21
Rank	#118	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	1.10
Rank	#179	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Website

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

docs.citusdata.com

developers.eventstore.com

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Event Store Limited

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Splice Machine

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2010

2012

2004

2014

1987

Current release

8.1, December 2018

21.2, February 2021

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

3.1, March 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C, Java, Python

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
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

yes

Java

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

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

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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