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System Properties Comparison Citus vs. MaxDB vs. PostGIS vs. TinkerGraph vs. Tkrzw

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonMaxDB infoformerly named Adabas-D  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLA robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutionsSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 APIA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSGraph DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score2.32
Rank#112  Overall
#55  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
Websitewww.citusdata.commaxdb.sap.compostgis.nettinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlindbmx.net/­tkrzw
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.commaxdb.sap.com/­documentationpostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperSAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997Mikio Hirabayashi
Initial release20101984200520092020
Current release8.1, December 20187.9.10.12, February 20243.4.2, February 20240.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercial infoLimited community edition freeOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++CJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
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 functionalitynoyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyesyesnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Groovy
Java
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yesuser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsSource-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQLnonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesoptionalyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononoyesyes infousing specific database classes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLnono

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