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DBMS > Citus vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Linter vs. Sadas Engine vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. HEAVY.AI vs. Linter vs. Sadas Engine vs. YDB

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLA high performance, column-oriented RDBMS, specifically developed to harness the massive parallelism of modern CPU and GPU hardwareRDBMS for high security requirementsSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMSSpatial DBMS
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Score2.15
Rank#123  Overall
#60  Relational DBMS
Score2.10
Rank#126  Overall
#61  Relational DBMS
Score0.10
Rank#350  Overall
#153  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#379  Overall
#156  Relational DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#285  Overall
#43  Document stores
#130  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
linter.ruwww.sadasengine.comgithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comdocs.heavy.aiwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperHEAVY.AI, Inc.relex.ruSADAS s.r.l.Yandex
Initial release20102016199020062019
Current release8.1, December 20185.10, January 20228.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availablecommercialcommercial infofree trial version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++ and CUDAC and C++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxAIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
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 functionalitynononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyesyesyesSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Vega
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLnono
Triggersyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoRound robinnonehorizontal partitioningSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationnoneActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'no
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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