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DBMS > Citus vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. TempoIQ vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. TempoIQ vs. Transbase vs. VelocityDB

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonTempoIQ infoformerly TempoDB  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesScalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score3.05
Rank#97  Overall
#17  Document stores
#16  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#334  Overall
#148  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#354  Overall
#37  Graph DBMS
#15  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqltempoiq.com (offline)www.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmlvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmlvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperOracleTempoIQTransaction Software GmbHVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20102011201219872011
Current release8.1, December 201824.1, May 2024Transbase 8.3, 20227.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)commercialcommercial infofree development licensecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageCJavaC and C++C#
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Solaris SPARC/x86
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.schema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyesyesyes
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 indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
.Net
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nonoyesno
Triggersyesnoyes infoRealtime AlertsyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)noyesACID
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.noyes infooff heap cachenonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolessimple authentication-based access controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication

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