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DBMS > Citus vs. FatDB vs. Hive vs. JSqlDb vs. PostGIS

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. FatDB vs. Hive vs. JSqlDb vs. PostGIS

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonJSqlDb  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.data warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopJavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitivesSpatial extension of PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comhive.apache.orgjsqldb.org (offline)postgis.net
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homepostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperFatCloudApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookKonrad von Backstrom
Initial release20102012201220182005
Current release8.1, December 20183.1.3, April 20220.8, December 20183.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC#JavaC
Server operating systemsLinuxWindowsAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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 functionalitynoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServerSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C#C++
Java
PHP
Python
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yes infovia applicationsyes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducefunctions in JavaScriptuser defined functions
Triggersyesyes infovia applicationsnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsselectable replication factorselectable replication factornoneyes infobased on PostgreSQL
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesyes infoquery execution via MapReducenono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infousing RocksDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsAccess rights for users, groups and rolesyes infobased on PostgreSQL

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