DBMS > Citus vs. GridGain vs. PouchDB vs. SQLite vs. Trino

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. GridGain vs. PouchDB vs. SQLite vs. Trino

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Name

Description

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

GridGain is an in-memory computing platform, built on Apache Ignite

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Fast distributed SQL query engine for big data analytics. Forked from Presto and originally named PrestoSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Key-value store
Spatial DBMS
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Wide column store

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Score	2.21
Rank	#118	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#154	Overall
	#26	Key-value stores
	#72	Relational DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	114.32
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	5.00
Rank	#66	Overall
	#36	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.citusdata.com

www.gridgain.com/docs/index.html

pouchdb.com/guides

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

trino.io/broadcast
trino.io/docs/current

Social network pages

Developer

GridGain Systems, Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Trino Software Foundation

Initial release

2010

2007

2012

2000

2012

2020 rebranded from PrestoSQL

Current release

8.1, December 2018

GridGain 8.5.1

7.1.1, June 2019

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, C++, .Net

JavaScript

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

server-less

Linux
macOS

for devlopment

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

depending on connected data-source

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

ANSI-99 for query and DML statements, subset of DDL

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

HDFS API
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Trino CLI

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

JavaScript

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

yes (compute grid and cache interceptors can be used instead)

View functions in JavaScript

yes, depending on connected data-source

Triggers

yes

yes (cache interceptors and events)

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

none

depending on connected data-source

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

yes (replicated cache)

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

none

depending on connected data-source

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes (compute grid and hadoop accelerator)

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

depending on connected data-source

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

depending on connected data-source

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

yes

depending on connected data-source

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

Security Hooks for custom implementations

SQL standard access control

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