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DBMS > Citus vs. Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Sadas Engine

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. Heroic vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Sadas Engine

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonHeroic  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLTime Series DBMS built at Spotify based on Cassandra or Google Cloud Bigtable, and ElasticSearchDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBA drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.46
Rank#265  Overall
#22  Time Series DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.60
Rank#246  Overall
#39  Document stores
Score0.07
Rank#373  Overall
#157  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comgithub.com/­spotify/­heroicwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.percona.com/­mongodb/­software/­percona-server-for-mongodbwww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comspotify.github.io/­heroiccloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.percona.com/­percona-distribution-for-mongodbwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperSpotifyIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014PerconaSADAS s.r.l.
Initial release20102014201020152006
Current release8.1, December 20183.4.10-2.10, November 20178.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL Version 2commercial infofree trial version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageCJavaErlangC++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinuxAIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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 indexesyesyes infovia Elasticsearchyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnononoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HQL (Heroic Query Language, a JSON-based language)
HTTP API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIproprietary protocol using JSONJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noView functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptJavaScriptno
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Eventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono infoatomic operations within a document possibleno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
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.nononoyes infovia In-Memory Engineyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databaseAccess rights for users and rolesAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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