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DBMS > Citus vs. GBase vs. KeyDB vs. Postgres-XL

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. GBase vs. KeyDB vs. Postgres-XL

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonKeyDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocolsBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.07
Rank#185  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score0.71
Rank#226  Overall
#33  Key-value stores
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comwww.gbase.cngithub.com/­Snapchat/­KeyDB
keydb.dev
www.postgres-xl.org
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comdocs.keydb.devwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.
Initial release2010200420192014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB
Current release8.1, December 2018GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c10 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialOpen Source infoBSD-3Open Source infoMozilla public license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC, Java, PythonC++C
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinuxLinux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyespartial infoSupported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexesyes
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 functionalityyesnoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionality
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoby using the Redis Search moduleyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsStandard with numerous extensionsnoyes infodistributed, parallel query execution
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol infoRESP - REdis Serialization ProtocoADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C#C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.user defined functionsLuauser defined functions
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDOptimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scriptsACID infoMVCC
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoConfigurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logsyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyessimple password-based access control and ACLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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