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DBMS > Citus vs. ObjectBox vs. SQream DB vs. TerarkDB

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. ObjectBox vs. SQream DB vs. TerarkDB

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsa GPU-based, columnar RDBMS for big data analytics workloadsA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMS
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Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.74
Rank#224  Overall
#103  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitewww.citusdata.comgithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
sqream.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdb
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comdocs.objectbox.iodocs.sqream.combytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperObjectBox LimitedSQream TechnologiesByteDance, originally Terark
Initial release2010201720172016
Current release8.1, December 20184.0 (May 2024)2022.1.6, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableBindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0commercialcommercial inforestricted open source version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCC and C++C++, CUDA, Haskell, Java, ScalaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesno
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 functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Proprietary native API.Net
JDBC
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C++
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 functions in Pythonno
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnonehorizontal and vertical partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlinenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
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 dataACIDACIDACIDno
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.nonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesno
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