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System Properties Comparison Citus vs. HyperSQL vs. Kingbase vs. Transbase vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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Name

Description

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

Multithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java

also known as HSQLDB

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Distributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.15
Rank	#117	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	3.23
Rank	#93	Overall
	#48	Relational DBMS

Score	0.50
Rank	#257	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#334	Overall
	#148	Relational DBMS

Score	0.12
Rank	#348	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Website

www.citusdata.com

hsqldb.org

www.kingbase.com.cn

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

www.transwarp.cn/en/product/argodb

Technical documentation

docs.citusdata.com

hsqldb.org/web/hsqlDocsFrame.html

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

docs.transwarp.cn/#/documents-support/docs?category=ARGODB

Developer

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

Transaction Software GmbH

Transwarp

Initial release

2010

2001

1999

1987

Current release

8.1, December 2018

2.7.2, June 2023

V8.0, August 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

Open Source

based on BSD license

commercial

free development license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java VM

Embedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modes

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

yes

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

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

HTTP API

JDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC
Java

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

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

Java, SQL

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

none

yes

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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

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