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DBMS > Citus vs. Oracle Rdb vs. RocksDB vs. TinkerGraph vs. Ultipa

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. Oracle Rdb vs. RocksDB vs. TinkerGraph vs. Ultipa

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Rdb  Xexclude from comparisonRocksDB  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonUltipa  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLEmbeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)A lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 APIHigh performance Graph DBMS supporting HTAP high availability cluster deployment
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score2.13
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.04
Rank#184  Overall
#84  Relational DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#97  Overall
#16  Key-value stores
Score0.08
Rank#345  Overall
#34  Graph DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#338  Overall
#32  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb.htmlrocksdb.orgtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlinwww.ultipa.com
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­rdb-doc.htmlgithub.com/­facebook/­rocksdb/­wikiwww.ultipa.com/­document
DeveloperOracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Facebook, Inc.Ultipa
Initial release20101984201320092019
Current release8.1, December 20187.4.1.1, 20219.4.0, June 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialOpen Source infoBSDOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxHP Open VMSLinux
Data schemeyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)schema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyes
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 functionalitynonono
Secondary indexesyesyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyesnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
C++ API
Java API
TinkerPop 3RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby
Groovy
Java
C++
Go
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.nono
Triggersyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyes, on a single nodeyesno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnono

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