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DBMS > Citus vs. CockroachDB vs. IRONdb vs. OpenTSDB

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. CockroachDB vs. IRONdb vs. OpenTSDB

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonCockroachDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines 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 distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score5.73
Rank#58  Overall
#34  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comwww.cockroachlabs.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/opentsdb.net
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comwww.cockroachlabs.com/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.html
DeveloperCockroach LabsCirconus LLC.currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors
Initial release2010201520172011
Current release8.1, December 201824.1.0, May 2024V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0, commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoLGPL
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCGoC and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
LinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesdynamic schemaschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsnumeric data for metrics, strings for tags
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 extensionsyes, wire compatible with PostgreSQLSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)no
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBCHTTP APIHTTP API
Telnet API
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
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noyes, in Luano
Triggersyesnonono
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 RAFTAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infobased on HBase
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsMulti-source replication using RAFTconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareselectable replication factor infobased on HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesImmediate Consistency infobased on HBase
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nononono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlnono

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