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DBMS > Citus vs. Machbase Neo vs. Quasardb vs. SpaceTime vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. Machbase Neo vs. Quasardb vs. SpaceTime vs. Yaacomo

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.commachbase.comquasar.aiwww.mireo.com/­spacetimeyaacomo.com
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.commachbase.com/­dbmsdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperMachbasequasardbMireoQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release20102013200920202009
Current release8.1, December 2018V8.0, August 20233.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercial infofree test version availablecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCCC++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
LinuxAndroid
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyesyes
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 functionalitynononono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
HTTP APIRESTful HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C#
C++
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nonono
Triggersyesnononoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoconsistent hashingFixed-grid hypercubeshorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsselectable replication factorSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorReal-time block device replication (DRBD)Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesnoyes infoby using LevelDByesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infovolatile and lookup tableyes infoTransient modenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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