DBMS > Citus vs. GBase vs. Hyprcubd vs. TimesTen vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. GBase vs. Hyprcubd vs. TimesTen vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name

Hyprcubd seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

Serverless Time Series DBMS

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Search engine

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Trend Chart

Score	2.21
Rank	#118	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	1.07
Rank	#185	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#350	Overall
	#153	Relational DBMS

Website

www.citusdata.com

www.gbase.cn

hyprcubd.com (offline)

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

docs.citusdata.com

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

Hyprcubd, Inc.

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Transwarp

Initial release

2010

2004

1998

Current release

8.1, December 2018

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

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

C, Java, Python

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

time, int, uint, float, string

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

Standard with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

gRPC (https)

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

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

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

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

yes

token access

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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