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System Properties Comparison Citus vs. KairosDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Realm vs. Teradata

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLDistributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataA hybrid cloud data analytics software platform (Teradata Vantage)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSObject oriented DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#239  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score1.20
Rank#170  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score7.60
Rank#52  Overall
#9  Document stores
Score45.33
Rank#21  Overall
#15  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comgithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbobjectbox.iorealm.iowww.teradata.com
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comkairosdb.github.iodocs.objectbox.iorealm.io/­docsdocs.teradata.com
DeveloperObjectBox LimitedRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019Teradata
Initial release20102013201720141984
Current release8.1, December 20181.2.2, November 2018Teradata Vantage 1.0 MU2, January 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache License 2.0Open Sourcecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
hosted
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
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 functionalitynononoyes
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes infoJoin-index to prejoin tables, aggregate index, sparse index, hash index
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnononoyes infoSQL 2016 + extensions
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Proprietary native API.NET Client API
HTTP REST
JDBC
JMS Adapter
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C
C++
Cobol
Java (JDBC-ODBC)
Perl
PL/1
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nonono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryyes infoUDFs, stored procedures, table functions in parallel
Triggersyesnonoyes infoChange Listenersyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on CassandranonenoneSharding infoHashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraonline/offline synchronization between client and servernoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDACID
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.nononoyes infoIn-Memory realmyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlyesyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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