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DBMS > Citus vs. CockroachDB vs. FatDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Transwarp StellarDB

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. CockroachDB vs. FatDB vs. InfluxDB vs. Transwarp StellarDB

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp StellarDB  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLCockroachDB is a distributed database architected for modern cloud applications. It is wire compatible with PostgreSQL and backed by a Key-Value Store, which is either RocksDB or a purpose-built derivative, called Pebble.A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA distributed graph DBMS built for enterprise-level graph applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.13
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score4.74
Rank#67  Overall
#36  Relational DBMS
Score22.12
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comwww.cockroachlabs.comwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewwww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­stellardb
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsdocs.influxdata.com/­influxdb
DeveloperCockroach LabsFatCloudTranswarp
Initial release2010201520122013
Current release8.1, December 201824.1.0, May 20242.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCGoC#Go
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
WindowsLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Data schemeyesdynamic schemaschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data and Strings
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 indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServerSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
OpenCypher
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C#
C++
Clojure
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
C#.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noyes infovia applicationsno
Triggersyesnoyes infovia applicationsno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioning (by key range) infoall tables are translated to an ordered KV store and then broken down into 64MB ranges, which are then used as replicas in RAFTShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlyhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsMulti-source replication using RAFTselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version only
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
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.nonoyes infoDepending on used storage engine
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationssimple rights management via user accountsyes
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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