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DBMS > Citus vs. FatDB vs. IRONdb vs. MonetDB

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. FatDB vs. IRONdb vs. MonetDB

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonFatDB  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparison
FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.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 PostgreSQLA .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.A distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityA relational database management system that stores data in columns
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Time Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score2.13
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#135  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/www.monetdb.org
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedwww.monetdb.org/­Documentation
DeveloperFatCloudCirconus LLC.MonetDB BV
Initial release2010201220172004
Current release8.1, December 2018V0.10.20, January 2018Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC#C and C++C
Server operating systemsLinuxWindowsLinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyes
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 functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsno infoVia inetgration in SQL ServerSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)yes infoSQL 2003 with some extensions
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings
HTTP APIJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C#.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
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.yes infovia applicationsyes, in Luayes, in SQL, C, R
Triggersyesyes infovia applicationsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding via remote tables
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsselectable replication factorconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awarenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental status
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Immediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACID
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.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno infoCan implement custom security layer via applicationsnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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