DBMS > Citus vs. GeoMesa vs. Oracle vs. Sequoiadb vs. Sphinx

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. GeoMesa vs. Oracle vs. Sequoiadb vs. Sphinx

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Name

Description

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

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

Widely used RDBMS

NewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL

Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	2.15
Rank	#117	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	1244.08
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#258	Overall
	#41	Document stores
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	5.95
Rank	#55	Overall
	#5	Search engines

Website

www.citusdata.com

www.geomesa.org

www.oracle.com/database

www.sequoiadb.com

sphinxsearch.com

Technical documentation

docs.citusdata.com

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

docs.oracle.com/en/database

www.sequoiadb.com/en/index.php?m=Files&a=index

sphinxsearch.com/docs

Developer

CCRi and others

Oracle

Sequoiadb Ltd.

Sphinx Technologies Inc.

Initial release

2010

2014

1980

2013

2001

Current release

8.1, December 2018

5.0.0, May 2024

23c, September 2023

3.5.1, February 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Server: AGPL; Client: Apache V2

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial licence available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

oid, date, timestamp, binary, regex

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

full-text index on all search fields

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)

APIs and other access methods

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

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

proprietary protocol using JSON

Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python

C++

unofficial client library
Java
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

depending on storage layer

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can be realized in PL/SQL

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

Document is locked during a transaction

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

depending on storage layer

yes

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

simple password-based access control

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