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System Properties Comparison Citus vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. Sadas Engine vs. SiriDB vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

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

Cloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in Data warehouse environments

Open Source Time Series DBMS

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

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Score	1.41
Rank	#146	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	8.21
Rank	#51	Overall
	#9	Document stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#333	Overall
	#138	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#316	Overall
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.40
Rank	#112	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Website

www.citusdata.com

firebase.google.com/products/firestore

www.sadasengine.com

siridb.net

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

docs.citusdata.com

firebase.google.com/docs/firestore

www.sadasengine.com/index.php/downloads/documentation-columnar-db

docs.siridb.net

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

Google

SADAS s.r.l.

Transceptor Technology

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2010

2017

2006

2017

1998

Current release

8.1, December 2018

8.0

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

hosted

AIX
Linux
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data

yes

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

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

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

Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

C
C++
Go
Python

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functions

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

yes, with Cloud Functions

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

Multi-source replication

none

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Using Cloud Dataflow

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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