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DBMS > Citus vs. TerminusDB vs. Tkrzw vs. Yaacomo

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. TerminusDB vs. Tkrzw vs. Yaacomo

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonTkrzw infoSuccessor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet  Xexclude from comparisonYaacomo  Xexclude from comparison
Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsA concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto CabinetOpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
RDF store
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Score2.13
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#311  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#61  Key-value stores
Websitewww.citusdata.comterminusdb.comdbmx.net/­tkrzwyaacomo.com
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperDataChemist Ltd.Mikio HirabayashiQ2WEB GmbH
Initial release2010201820202009
Current release8.1, December 201811.0.0, January 20230.9.3, August 2020
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCProlog, RustC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
macOS
Android
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
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 indexesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language (WOQL)noyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
JavaScript
Python
C++
Java
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yesno
Triggersyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingGraph Partitioningnonehorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsJournaling StreamsnoneSource-replica replication
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 integrityyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoin-memory journalingyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infousing specific database classesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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