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DBMS > Citus vs. FeatureBase vs. Galaxybase vs. IRONdb vs. Newts

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. FeatureBase vs. Galaxybase vs. IRONdb vs. Newts

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  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 PostgreSQLReal-time database platform that powers real-time analytics and machine learning applications by simultaneously executing low-latency, high-throughput, and highly concurrent workloads.Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityTime Series DBMS based on Cassandra
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
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Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#309  Overall
#139  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#39  Graph DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comwww.featurebase.comgalaxybase.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/opennms.github.io/­newts
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comdocs.featurebase.comdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wiki
DeveloperMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司Circonus LLC.OpenNMS Group
Initial release20102017201720172014
Current release8.1, December 20182022, May 2022Nov 20, November 2021V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialcommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCGoC and JavaC and C++Java
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
LinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesStrong typed schemaschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes 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 functionalitynononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsSQL queriesnoSQL-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
gRPC
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
HTTP APIHTTP REST
Java API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
Python
Go
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.user defined procedures and functionsyes, in Luano
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infobased on Cassandra
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyesconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandra
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 nodesEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using Linux fsyncyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlnono

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