DBMS > Citus vs. GeoMesa vs. InfluxDB vs. RocksDB vs. SiriDB

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. GeoMesa vs. InfluxDB vs. RocksDB vs. SiriDB

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Name

Description

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

GeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Open Source Time Series DBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

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Score	2.15
Rank	#117	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#205	Overall
	#4	Spatial DBMS

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.07
Rank	#378	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.citusdata.com

www.geomesa.org

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

rocksdb.org

siridb.com

Technical documentation

docs.citusdata.com

www.geomesa.org/documentation/stable/user/index.html

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.siridb.com

Developer

CCRi and others

Facebook, Inc.

Cesbit

Initial release

2010

2014

2013

2017

Current release

8.1, December 2018

5.0.0, May 2024

2.7.6, April 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Scala

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data and Strings

yes

Numeric data

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

C++ API
Java API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

depending on storage layer

Sharding

in enterprise version only

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

depending on storage layer

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

depending on storage layer

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

depending on storage layer

yes

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

depending on the DBMS used for storage

simple rights management via user accounts

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