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DBMS > Citus vs. Geode vs. LokiJS vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. Geode vs. LokiJS vs. Riak TS

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonGeode  Xexclude from comparisonLokiJS  Xexclude from comparisonRiak TS  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 processesIn-memory JavaScript DBMSRiak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value storeDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score2.13
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.51
Rank#147  Overall
#25  Key-value stores
Score0.44
Rank#256  Overall
#40  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#318  Overall
#27  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comgeode.apache.orggithub.com/­techfort/­LokiJS
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comgeode.apache.org/­docstechfort.github.io/­LokiJSwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­ts/­latest
DeveloperOriginally developed by Gemstone. They outsourced the project to Apache in 2015 but still deliver a commercial version as Gemfire.Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies
Initial release2010200220142015
Current release8.1, December 20181.1, February 20173.0.0, September 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; commercial licenses available as GemfireOpen SourceOpen Source
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCJavaJavaScriptErlang
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VM infothe JDK (8 or later) is also requiredserver-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnono
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 indexesyesnoyes infovia viewsrestricted
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language (OQL)noyes, limited
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Java Client API
Memcached protocol
RESTful HTTP API
JavaScript APIHTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
All JVM based languages
C++
Groovy
Java
Scala
JavaScriptC infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.user defined functionsView functions in JavaScriptErlang
Triggersyesyes infoCache Event Listenersyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsMulti-source replicationnoneselectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencynoneEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono infolinks between datasets can be stored
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes, on a single nodeno infoatomic operations within a single collection possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoSerialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.yes
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 definablenono

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