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DBMS > Citus vs. Faircom EDGE vs. GeoSpock vs. Tibero vs. TimescaleDB

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. Faircom EDGE vs. GeoSpock vs. Tibero vs. TimescaleDB

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonFaircom EDGE infoformerly c-treeEDGE  Xexclude from comparisonGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonTibero  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLFairCom EDGE is an Industry 4.0 solution built to integrate, collect, aggregate and synchronize mission-critical data in edge computing environmentsSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleA secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from OracleA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.02
Rank#368  Overall
#54  Key-value stores
#156  Relational DBMS
Score1.78
Rank#140  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score4.64
Rank#71  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comwww.faircom.com/­products/­faircom-edgegeospock.comus.tmaxsoft.com/­products/­tiberowww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comdocs.faircom.com/­docs/­en/­UUID-23d4f1fd-d213-f6d5-b92e-9b7475baa14e.htmltechnet.tmaxsoft.com/­upload/­download/­online/­tibero/­pver-20150504-000002/­index.htmldocs.timescale.com
DeveloperFairCom CorporationGeoSpockTmaxSoftTimescale
Initial release2010197920032017
Current release8.1, December 2018V3, October 20202.0, September 20196, April 20152.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercial infoRestricted, free version availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageCANSI C, C++Java, JavascriptC and AssemblerC
Server operating systemsLinuxAndroid
Linux infoARM, x86
Raspbian
Windows
hostedAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyesyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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 functionalityyesnoyesyes
Secondary indexesyesyestemporal, categoricalyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyes infoANSI SQL queriesANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)yesyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
Direct SQL
IoT Microservice layer
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
VB.Net
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yes info.Net, JavaScript, C/C++noPersistent Stored Procedure (PSM)user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersyesyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingFile partitioning infoCustomizable business rules for partitioningAutomatic shardinghorizontal partitioning infoby range, hash, list or compositeyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyes infoSynchronous and asynchronous realtime replication based on transaction logsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Tunable Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infowhen using SQLnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoacross SQL and NoSQLyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnono infoplanned for next versionno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardFine grained user, group and file access rights managed across SQL (per ANSI standard) and NoSQL.Access rights for users can be defined per tablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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