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DBMS > Citus vs. Geode vs. IRONdb vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. Geode vs. IRONdb vs. Kyligence Enterprise vs. Yaacomo

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonKyligence Enterprise  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLGeode is a distributed data container, pooling memory, CPU, network resources, and optionally local disk across multiple processesA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA distributed analytics engine for big data, built on top of Apache KylinOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.86
Rank#134  Overall
#24  Key-value stores
Score0.46
Rank#266  Overall
#124  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comgeode.apache.orgwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/kyligence.io/­kyligence-enterpriseyaacomo.com
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comgeode.apache.org/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Circonus LLC.Kyligence, Inc.Q2WEB GmbH
Initial release20102002201720162009
Current release8.1, December 20181.1, February 2017V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as Gemfirecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaC and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredLinuxLinuxAndroid
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesyes
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 indexesyesnonoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language (OQL)SQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)ANSI SQL for queries (using Apache Calcite)yes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.user defined functionsyes, in Lua
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsMulti-source replicationconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes, on a single nodenoACID
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.noyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights per client and object definablenofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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