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

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

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonSQream DB  Xexclude from comparisonTigris  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 horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.13
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.08
Rank#179  Overall
#6  Object oriented DBMS
#9  Vector DBMS
Score0.62
Rank#234  Overall
#109  Relational DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#359  Overall
#50  Document stores
#52  Key-value stores
#23  Search engines
#37  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comgithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
sqream.comwww.tigrisdata.com
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comdocs.objectbox.iodocs.sqream.comwww.tigrisdata.com/­docs
DeveloperObjectBox LimitedSQream TechnologiesTigris Data, Inc.
Initial release2010201720172022
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 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
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, Scala
Server operating systemsLinuxAndroid
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
LinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyes, ANSI Standard SQL Typesyes
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 indexesyesyesnoyes
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
CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP 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
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
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 partitioningSharding
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 offlinenoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesno
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, using FoundationDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesAccess rights for users and roles
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