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DBMS > Citus vs. HyperSQL vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Realm vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. HyperSQL vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. Realm vs. Transbase

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonHyperSQL infoalso known as HSQLDB  Xexclude from comparisonPercona Server for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLMultithreaded, transactional RDBMS written in Java infoalso known as HSQLDBEnhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument 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
Score3.23
Rank#93  Overall
#48  Relational DBMS
Score2.10
Rank#119  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comhsqldb.orgwww.percona.com/­software/­mysql-database/­percona-serverrealm.iowww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comhsqldb.org/­web/­hsqlDocsFrame.htmlwww.percona.com/­downloads/­Percona-Server-LATESTrealm.io/­docswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperPerconaRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Transaction Software GmbH
Initial release20102001200820141987
Current release8.1, December 20182.7.2, June 20238.0.36-28, 2024Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infobased on BSD licenseOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Sourcecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaC and C++C and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VM infoEmbedded (into Java applications) and Client-Server operating modesLinuxAndroid
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
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 functionalitynoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyesyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP API infoJDBC via HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
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
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.Java, SQLyesno inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryyes
Triggersyesyesyesyes infoChange Listenersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster
noneSource-replica 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 integrityyesyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
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.noyesyesyes infoIn-Memory realmno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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