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DBMS > Citus vs. GeoMesa vs. HyperSQL vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. GeoMesa vs. HyperSQL vs. Microsoft Azure Synapse Analytics vs. WakandaDB

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Synapse Analytics infopreviously named Azure SQL Data Warehouse  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBElastic, large scale data warehouse service leveraging the broad eco-system of SQL ServerWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.78
Rank#213  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score3.49
Rank#87  Overall
#47  Relational DBMS
Score20.56
Rank#31  Overall
#19  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#364  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comwww.geomesa.orghsqldb.orgazure.microsoft.com/­services/­synapse-analyticswakanda.github.io
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmldocs.microsoft.com/­azure/­synapse-analyticswakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperCCRi and othersMicrosoftWakanda SAS
Initial release20102014200120162012
Current release8.1, December 20185.0.0, May 20242.7.2, June 20232.7.0 (AprilĀ 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infobased on BSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageCScalaJavaC++C++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modeshostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 functionalitynononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java
C#
Java
PHP
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noJava, SQLTransact SQLyes
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layernoneSharding, horizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsdepending on storage layernoneyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno infodocs.microsoft.com/­en-us/­azure/­synapse-analytics/­sql-data-warehouse/­sql-data-warehouse-table-constraints
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nodepending on storage layeryesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesyes

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