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System Properties Comparison Citus vs. NSDb vs. PostGIS vs. Rockset vs. TinkerGraph

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesSpatial extension of PostgreSQLA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDBA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument storeGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Search engine
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Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.79
Rank#211  Overall
#35  Document stores
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comnsdb.iopostgis.netrockset.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comnsdb.io/­Architecturepostgis.net/­documentationdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperRockset
Initial release20102017200520192009
Current release8.1, December 20183.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageCJava, ScalaCC++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
hosted
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesdynamic typingyes
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 functionalitynoyesno infoingestion from XML files supportedno
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesall fields are automatically indexedno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsSQL-like query languageyesRead-only SQL queries, including JOINsno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
HTTP RESTTinkerPop 3
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nouser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLAutomatic shardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyes infobased on PostgreSQLyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset consoleno

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