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System Properties Comparison Citus vs. GBase vs. Oracle Rdb vs. SQL.JS

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  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.Port of SQLite to JavaScript
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score1.14
Rank#178  Overall
#80  Relational DBMS
Score0.63
Rank#241  Overall
#112  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comwww.gbase.cnwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlsql.js.org
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.html
DeveloperGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by others
Initial release2010200419842012
Current release8.1, December 2018GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c7.4.1.1, 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC, Java, PythonJavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxHP Open VMSserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)yes
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 functionalityyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsStandard with numerous extensionsyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supported
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C#JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.user defined functionsno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDyes, on a single nodeACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a file
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesno

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