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System Properties Comparison Citus vs. PostGIS vs. RavenDB vs. TimesTen vs. WakandaDB

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparisonWakandaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLSpatial extension of PostgreSQLOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to OracleWakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#364  Overall
#17  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.compostgis.netravendb.netwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.htmlwakanda.github.io
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.compostgis.net/­documentationravendb.net/­docsdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1wakanda.github.io/­doc
DeveloperHibernating RhinosOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005Wakanda SAS
Initial release20102005201019982012
Current release8.1, December 20183.4.2, February 20245.4, July 202211 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)2.7.0 (AprilĀ 29, 2019), April 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoAGPLv3, extended commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCCC#C++, JavaScript
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
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 functionalityyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyesSQL-like query language (RQL)yesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
JavaScript
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.user defined functionsyesPL/SQLyes
Triggersyesyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyes infobased on PostgreSQLMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configurationImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpointsyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infobased on PostgreSQLAuthorization levels configured per client per databasefine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes

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