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DBMS > Citus vs. Drizzle vs. jBASE vs. RavenDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. Drizzle vs. jBASE vs. RavenDB vs. VictoriaMetrics

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonDrizzle  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonVictoriaMetrics  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.A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseA fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeGraph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#156  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score2.84
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score1.23
Rank#172  Overall
#15  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbaseravendb.netvictoriametrics.com
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9ravendb.net/­docsdocs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/­VictoriaMetrics/­VictoriaMetrics/­wiki
DeveloperDrizzle project, originally started by Brian AkerRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)Hibernating RhinosVictoriaMetrics
Initial release20102008199120102018
Current release8.1, December 20187.2.4, September 20125.75.4, July 2022v1.91, May 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoGNU GPLcommercialOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC++C#Go
Server operating systemsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
AIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalno
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 functionalityyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyes infowith proprietary extensionsEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICSQL-like query language (RQL)no
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBCJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C++
Java
PHP
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.noyesyesno
Triggersyesno infohooks for callbacks inside the server can be used.yesyesno
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
yesMulti-source replicationSynchronous replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate 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.Eventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableno
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.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardPluggable authentication mechanisms infoe.g. LDAP, HTTPAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelAuthorization levels configured per client per database

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