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System Properties Comparison Citus vs. IBM Cloudant vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonIBM Cloudant  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp ArgoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLDatabase as a Service offering based on Apache CouchDBDistributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSearch engine
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Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score2.75
Rank#104  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.12
Rank#348  Overall
#151  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comwww.ibm.com/­products/­cloudantwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodb
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comcloud.ibm.com/­docs/­Cloudantdocs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODB
DeveloperIBM, Apache Software Foundation infoIBM acquired Cloudant in February 2014Transwarp
Initial release20102010
Current release8.1, December 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCErlang
Server operating systemsLinuxhosted
Data schemeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyes
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 functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoyes
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
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 JavaScript
Triggersyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding
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
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDno infoatomic operations within a document possible
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoOptimistic lockingyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users can be defined per database

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