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

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonFeatureBase  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  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.Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformTime Series DBMS based on CassandraDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
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
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comwww.featurebase.comgalaxybase.comopennms.github.io/­newtsquasar.ai
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comdocs.featurebase.comgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperMolecula and Pilosa Open Source ContributorsChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司OpenNMS Groupquasardb
Initial release20102017201720142009
Current release8.1, December 20182022, May 2022Nov 20, November 20213.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialcommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCGoC and JavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
macOS
LinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesStrong typed schemaschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes infointeger and binary
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 indexesyesnoyesnoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsSQL queriesnonoSQL-like query language
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 REST
Java API
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
Python
Go
Java
Python
Java.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
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 functionsnono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes, using Linux fsyncyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesnoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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