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DBMS > Citus vs. Galaxybase vs. Machbase Neo vs. Rockset

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. Galaxybase vs. Machbase Neo vs. Rockset

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonGalaxybase  Xexclude from comparisonMachbase Neo infoFormer name was Infiniflux  Xexclude from comparisonRockset  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLScalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platformTimeSeries DBMS for AIoT and BigDataA scalable, reliable search and analytics service in the cloud, built on RocksDB
Primary database modelRelational DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
Search engine
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#377  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#337  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#212  Overall
#36  Document stores
Websitewww.citusdata.comgalaxybase.commachbase.comrockset.com
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.commachbase.com/­dbmsdocs.rockset.com
DeveloperChuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司MachbaseRockset
Initial release2010201720132019
Current release8.1, December 2018Nov 20, November 2021V8.0, August 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialcommercial infofree test version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyes
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Implementation languageCC and JavaCC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
macOS
Windows
hosted
Data schemeyesStrong typed schemayesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesdynamic typing
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 functionalitynonono infoingestion from XML files supported
Secondary indexesyesyesyesall fields are automatically indexed
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoSQL-like query languageRead-only SQL queries, including JOINs
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API
gRPC
HTTP REST
JDBC
MQTT (Message Queue Telemetry Transport)
ODBC
HTTP REST
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Go
Java
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
PHP infovia ODBC
Python
R infovia ODBC
Scala
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
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
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardingAutomatic sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsselectable replication factoryes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyes infoRelationships in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes infovolatile and lookup table
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardRole-based access controlsimple password-based access controlAccess rights for users and organizations can be defined via Rockset console

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