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System Properties Comparison Citus vs. Graph Engine vs. JSqlDb vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

JSqlDB seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

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

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

JavaScript Query Language Database, stores JavaScript objects and primitives

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.96
Rank	#119	Overall
	#58	Relational DBMS

Score	0.59
Rank	#235	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#33	Key-value stores

Score	1.50
Rank	#144	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.citusdata.com

www.graphengine.io

jsqldb.org (offline)

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

docs.citusdata.com

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Microsoft

Konrad von Backstrom

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2010

2018

2008

Current release

8.1, December 2018

0.8, December 2018

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

.NET and C

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

.NET

Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

yes

functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

using RocksDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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