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DBMS > Citus vs. Firebolt vs. H2GIS vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. Firebolt vs. H2GIS vs. SpatiaLite

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonH2GIS  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLHighly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseSpatial extension of H2Spatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
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Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#134  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comwww.firebolt.iowww.h2gis.orgwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comdocs.firebolt.iowww.h2gis.org/­docs/­homewww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperFirebolt Analytics Inc.CNRSAlessandro Furieri
Initial release2010202020132008
Current release8.1, December 20185.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL 3.0Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageCJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedserver-less
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noyes infobased on H2no
Triggersyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsdepending on storage layeryes infobased on H2none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on H2no

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