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DBMS > Citus vs. H2 vs. Heroic vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. H2 vs. Heroic vs. InterSystems Caché vs. Quasardb

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonH2  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems Caché  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
Caché is a deprecated database engine which is substituted with InterSystems IRIS. It therefore is removed from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLFull-featured RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into a Java application or used as a database server.Time Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchA multi-model DBMS and application serverDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMSDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score8.33
Rank#46  Overall
#30  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comwww.h2database.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.intersystems.com/­products/­cachequasar.ai
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comwww.h2database.com/­html/­main.htmlspotify.github.io/­heroicdocs.intersystems.comdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperThomas MuellerSpotifyInterSystemsquasardb
Initial release20102005201419972009
Current release8.1, December 20182.2.220, July 20232018.1.4, May 20203.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infodual-licence (Mozilla public license, Eclipse public license)Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMAIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freedepending on used data modelschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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 functionalitynonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyesnoyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaC#
C++
Java
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.Java Stored Procedures and User-Defined Functionsnoyesno
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnoneSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsWith clustering: 2 database servers on different computers operate on identical copies of a databaseyesSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyesyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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