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System Properties Comparison Citus vs. FileMaker vs. Riak TS vs. Sadas Engine

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Name

Description

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

FileMaker is a cross-platform RDBMS that includes a GUI frontend.

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	2.15
Rank	#123	Overall
	#60	Relational DBMS

Score	49.73
Rank	#20	Overall
	#14	Relational DBMS

Score	0.25
Rank	#308	Overall
	#26	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#379	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Website

www.citusdata.com

www.claris.com/filemaker

www.sadasengine.com

Technical documentation

docs.citusdata.com

www.claris.com/resources/documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

Developer

Claris

a subsidiary of Apple

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

SADAS s.r.l.

Initial release

2010

1983

2015

2006

Current release

8.1, December 2018

19.4.1, November 2021

3.0.0, September 2022

8.0

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

commercial

Open Source

commercial

free trial version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Erlang

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

iOS

client part only
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

AIX
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

A http query request can return the data in XML format

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

yes

via plugins

yes, limited

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

Filemaker WebDirect
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

PHP

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
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.

yes

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

Source-replica replication, warm standby

since Version 14

selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts and connection to external directory services

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

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