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System Properties Comparison Citus vs. dBASE vs. Greenplum vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Memgraph

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonGreenplum  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLdBase was one of the first databases with a development environment on PC's. Its latest version dBase V is still sold as dBase classic, which needs a DOS Emulation. The up-to-date product is dBase plus.Analytic Database platform built on PostgreSQL. Full name is Pivotal Greenplum Database infoA logical database in Greenplum is an array of individual PostgreSQL databases working together to present a single database image.A high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareAn open source graph database built for real-time streaming and compatible with Neo4j
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Spatial DBMS
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Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score8.37
Rank#48  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comwww.dbase.comgreenplum.orggithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
memgraph.com
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.greenplum.orgdocs.heavy.aimemgraph.com/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperAsthon TatePivotal Software Inc.HEAVY.AI, Inc.Memgraph Ltd
Initial release20101979200520162017
Current release8.1, December 2018dBASE 2019, 20197.0.0, September 20235.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++ and CUDAC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
LinuxLinuxLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesschema-free and schema-optional
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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 functionalityyes infosince Version 4.2nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoyesyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
none infoThe IDE can access other DBMS or ODBC-sources.JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
dBase proprietary IDEC
Java
Perl
Python
R
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.no infoThe IDE can access stored procedures in other database systems.yesno
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingSharding infoRound robinSharding infodynamic graph partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsnoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication using RAFT
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesnoyes inforelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infonot for dBase internal data, but IDE does support transactions when accessing external DBMSACIDnoACID infowith snapshot isolation
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissions
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CitusdBASEGreenplumHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022Memgraph
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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