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DBMS > Citus vs. Drizzle vs. Immudb vs. NSDb vs. Transbase

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. Drizzle vs. Immudb vs. NSDb vs. Transbase

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonImmudb  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
Drizzle has published its last release in September 2012. The open-source project is discontinued and Drizzle is excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLMySQL fork with a pluggable micro-kernel and with an emphasis of performance over compatibility.An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
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Score2.13
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.24
Rank#295  Overall
#42  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score0.05
Rank#355  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comgithub.com/­codenotary/­immudb
immudb.io
nsdb.iowww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comdocs.immudb.ionsdb.io/­Architecturewww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerCodenotaryTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20102008202020171987
Current release8.1, December 20187.2.4, September 20121.2.3, April 2022Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoGNU GPLOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++GoJava, ScalaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS
Linux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyes
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 indexesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexedyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like syntaxSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBCgRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nononoyes
Triggersyesno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.noyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDnoyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesUsing Apache Luceneyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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