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System Properties Comparison Citus vs. FatDB vs. GBase vs. SQL.JS

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

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

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

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

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

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Score	2.15
Rank	#117	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Website

www.citusdata.com

Technical documentation

docs.citusdata.com

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

FatCloud

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2010

2012

2004

2012

Current release

8.1, December 2018

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

commercial

commercial

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

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Implementation language

C

C#

C, Java, Python

JavaScript

Server operating systems

Linux

Windows

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes

yes

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

no

Secondary indexes

yes

yes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

no

Via inetgration in SQL Server

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

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

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

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

C#

C#

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

yes

via applications

user defined functions

no

Triggers

yes

yes

via applications

yes

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

selectable replication factor

yes

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

yes

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

no

yes

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

no

ACID

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes

yes

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

no

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

no

Can implement custom security layer via applications

yes

no

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