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DBMS > Citus vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Sequoiadb vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. SAP Advantage Database Server vs. Sequoiadb vs. SpatiaLite

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonMicrosoft Azure Table Storage  Xexclude from comparisonSAP Advantage Database Server infoformer name: Sybase ADS  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparison
SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLA Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasetsLow-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structuresNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQLSpatial extension of SQLite
Primary database modelRelational DBMSWide column storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score4.04
Rank#77  Overall
#6  Wide column stores
Score0.50
Rank#258  Overall
#41  Document stores
#120  Relational DBMS
Score1.63
Rank#146  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comazure.microsoft.com/­en-us/­services/­storage/­tableswww.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.htmlwww.sequoiadb.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­index
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=indexwww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.html
DeveloperMicrosoftSybase, SAPSequoiadb Ltd.Alessandro Furieri
Initial release20102012199320132008
Current release8.1, December 20185.0.0, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2Open Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageCC++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
Windows
Linuxserver-less
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regexyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoyesSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP API.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
proprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Delphi
Perl
PHP
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noyesJavaScriptno
Triggersyesnoyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infoImplicit feature of the cloud servicenoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyes infoimplicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.Multi-source replication infoCONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDoptimistic lockingACIDDocument is locked during a transactionACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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.nonono infocaching of (temporary) tables can be configurednoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights based on private key authentication or shared access signaturesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardsimple password-based access controlno

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