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DBMS > Citus vs. MonetDB vs. PieCloudDB vs. SQream DB

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. MonetDB vs. PieCloudDB vs. SQream DB

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPPa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloads
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.13
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#135  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score0.37
Rank#271  Overall
#127  Relational DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#234  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comwww.monetdb.orgwww.openpie.comsqream.com
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdocs.sqream.com
DeveloperMonetDB BVOpenPieSQream Technologies
Initial release201020042017
Current release8.1, December 2018Dec2023 (11.49), December 20232.1, January 20232022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCCC++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hostedLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Types
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 functionality
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyesyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
.Net
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java
PL/SQL
Python
R
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yes, in SQL, C, Ruser defined functionsuser defined functions in Python
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding via remote tablesyeshorizontal and vertical partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standard
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CitusMonetDBPieCloudDBSQream DB
Specific characteristicsPieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantagesExtreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenariosPieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customersSail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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Licensing and pricing modelsPieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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