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DBMS > Citus vs. FeatureBase vs. Firebolt vs. Galaxybase

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. FeatureBase vs. Firebolt vs. Galaxybase

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonFirebolt  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLReal-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product infoForked from ClickhouseScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph 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
Score0.31
Rank#292  Overall
#135  Relational DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#140  Overall
#63  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comwww.featurebase.comwww.firebolt.iogalaxybase.com
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comdocs.featurebase.comdocs.firebolt.io
DeveloperMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsFirebolt Analytics Inc.Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司
Initial release2010201720202017
Current release8.1, December 20182022, May 2022Nov 20, November 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialcommercialcommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesno
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Implementation languageCGoC and Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
hostedLinux
Data schemeyesyesyesStrong typed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsSQL queriesyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
Python
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Go
Java
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nouser defined procedures and functions
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyesdepending on storage layer
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using Linux fsyncyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access control

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