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DBMS > Citus vs. FileMaker vs. IRONdb vs. openGauss vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. FileMaker vs. IRONdb vs. openGauss vs. Sadas Engine

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonFileMaker  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonopenGauss  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb 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 PostgreSQLFileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityAn enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with high-performance, high-availability and high-performance originally developed by HuaweiSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.13
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score45.20
Rank#20  Overall
#14  Relational DBMS
Score1.11
Rank#175  Overall
#79  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#159  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comwww.claris.com/­filemakerwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/gitee.com/­opengauss
opengauss.org
www.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comwww.claris.com/­resources/­documentationdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-starteddocs.opengauss.org/­en
gitee.com/­opengauss/­docs
www.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperClaris infoa subsidiary of AppleCirconus LLC.Huawei and openGauss communitySADAS s.r.l.
Initial release20101983201720192006
Current release8.1, December 201819.4.1, November 2021V0.10.20, January 20183.0, March 20228.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialcommercialOpen Sourcecommercial infofree trial version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC and C++C, C++, JavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxiOS infoclient part only
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxLinuxAIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
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 functionalityyes infoA http query request can return the data in XML formatnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyes infovia pluginsSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)ANSI SQL 2011yes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
PHP.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yesyes, in Luayesno
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash)horizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsSource-replica replication, warm standby infosince Version 14configurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nononoyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory servicesnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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