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System Properties Comparison Citus vs. LokiJS vs. OpenEdge vs. OrigoDB vs. SingleStore

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Name

Description

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

In-memory JavaScript DBMS

Application development environment with integrated database management system

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	2.15
Rank	#117	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#260	Overall
	#42	Document stores

Score	3.45
Rank	#85	Overall
	#46	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	5.38
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Website

www.citusdata.com

github.com/techfort/LokiJS

www.progress.com/openedge

origodb.com

www.singlestore.com

Technical documentation

docs.citusdata.com

techfort.github.io/LokiJS

documentation.progress.com/output/ua/OpenEdge_latest

origodb.com/docs

docs.singlestore.com

Developer

Progress Software Corporation

Robert Friberg et al

SingleStore Inc.

Initial release

2010

2014

1984

2009

under the name LiveDB

2013

Current release

8.1, December 2018

OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

yes

close to SQL 92

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

APIs and other access methods

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

JavaScript API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript

Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)

.Net

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

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

View functions in JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

horizontal partitioning

since Version 11.4

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Sharding

hash partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

none

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

atomic operations within a single collection possible

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Serialization of a DB in a Node.JS/Cordova/PhoneGap environment. Usage of the IndexedDB-API in a browser.

yes

Write ahead log

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

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

Users and groups

Role based authorization

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

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