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DBMS > Citus vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SwayDB vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. IBM Cloudant vs. SwayDB vs. YTsaurus

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparisonYTsaurus  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storageYTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeKey-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#20  Document stores
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Score0.11
Rank#340  Overall
#45  Document stores
#50  Key-value stores
Websitewww.citusdata.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantswaydb.simer.auytsaurus.tech
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantytsaurus.tech/­docs/­en
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Simer PlahaYandex
Initial release2010201020182023
Current release8.1, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0Open Source infoApache License, Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnono
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Implementation languageCErlangScalaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedUbuntu
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnonoyes
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 indexesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnonoYQL, an SQL-based language, is supported
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C#
Java
JavaScript
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Java
Kotlin
Scala
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.View functions (Map-Reduce) in JavaScriptno
Triggersyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possibleAtomic execution of operationsACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per databasenoAccess Control Lists

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