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DBMS > Citus vs. Geode vs. Linter vs. LokiJS

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. Geode vs. Linter vs. LokiJS

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparison
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 processesRDBMS for high security requirementsIn-memory JavaScript DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS
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Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.92
Rank#131  Overall
#23  Key-value stores
Score0.09
Rank#346  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score0.43
Rank#264  Overall
#42  Document stores
Websitewww.citusdata.comgeode.apache.orglinter.rugithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comgeode.apache.org/­docstechfort.github.io/­LokiJS
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.relex.ru
Initial release2010200219902014
Current release8.1, December 20181.1, February 2017
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfirecommercialOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCJavaC and C++JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredAIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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 functionalitynonono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyes infovia views
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language (OQL)yesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
JavaScript API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
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 functionsyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLView functions in JavaScript
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes, on a single nodeACIDno infoatomic operations within a single collection possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights per client and object definablefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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