DBMS > Citus vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. GeoSpock vs. SQLite vs. TempoIQ

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres vs. GeoSpock vs. SQLite vs. TempoIQ

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Description

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

Enterprise-grade PostgreSQL-based DBMS with security enhancements such as Transparent Data Encryption and Data Masking, plus high-availability and performance improvement features.

Spatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scale

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Score	2.15
Rank	#117	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	0.37
Rank	#278	Overall
	#128	Relational DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.citusdata.com

www.postgresql.fastware.com

geospock.com

www.sqlite.org

tempoiq.com (offline)

Technical documentation

docs.citusdata.com

www.postgresql.fastware.com/product-manuals

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

PostgreSQL Global Development Group, Fujitsu Australia Software Technology

GeoSpock

Dwayne Richard Hipp

TempoIQ

Initial release

2010

2000

2012

Current release

8.1, December 2018

Fujitsu Enterprise Postgres 14, January 2022

2.0, September 2019

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Javascript

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

hosted

server-less

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

Secondary indexes

yes

temporal, categorical

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

yes

ANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Realtime Alerts

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

partitioning by range, list and by hash

Automatic sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

via file-system locks

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per table

simple authentication-based access control

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Specific characteristics

100% compatible with community PostgreSQL
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Competitive advantages

Built-in TDE and Data Masking security. In-Memory Columnar Index, and a high speed...
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Typical application scenarios

Transactional payments applications, reporting and mixed workloads.
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Market metrics

Over 30 years experience in database technology. Over 20 years in Postgres development...
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Licensing and pricing models

Core based licensing
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