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

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisondBASE  Xexclude from comparisonHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022  Xexclude from comparisonMemgraph  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  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.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 Neo4jA high performance open source SQL database for time series data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score10.34
Rank#44  Overall
#28  Relational DBMS
Score1.77
Rank#141  Overall
#65  Relational DBMS
Score3.02
Rank#98  Overall
#8  Graph DBMS
Score2.52
Rank#109  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comwww.dbase.comgithub.com/­heavyai/­heavydb
www.heavy.ai
memgraph.comquestdb.io
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comwww.dbase.com/­support/­knowledgebasedocs.heavy.aimemgraph.com/­docsquestdb.io/­docs
Social network pagesLinkedInTwitterFacebookGitHubDiscord
DeveloperAsthon TateHEAVY.AI, Inc.Memgraph LtdQuestDB Technology Inc
Initial release20101979201620172014
Current release8.1, December 2018dBASE 2019, 20195.10, January 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2; enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoBSL 1.1; commercial license for enterprise edition availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++ and CUDAC and C++Java (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxDOS infodBase Classic
Windows infodBase Pro
LinuxLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free and schema-optionalyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocol
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 functionalitynonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoyesnoSQL with time-series extensions
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
Thrift
Vega
Bolt protocol
Cypher query language
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
dBase proprietary IDEAll languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/Thrift
Python
.Net
C
C++
Elixir
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
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.nono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneSharding infoRound robinSharding infodynamic graph partitioninghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsnoneMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication using RAFTSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes inforelationships in graphsno
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 DBMSnoACID infowith snapshot isolationACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infowith periodic snapshot and write-ahead logging (WAL) of changesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers, roles and permissions
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CitusdBASEHEAVY.AI infoFormerly named 'OmniSci', rebranded to 'HEAVY.AI' in March 2022MemgraphQuestDB
Specific characteristicsMemgraph directly connects to your streaming infrastructure so you and your team...
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Relational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesBusiness Source License ensures a future for the Memgraph community MAGE algorithm...
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High ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosGraph algorithms in bioinformatics Social network analysis Cryptocurrency network...
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Financial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsYou can check out our pricing model and licenses on the company website .
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