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System Properties Comparison Citus vs. GeoMesa vs. KairosDB vs. Manticore Search

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonGeoMesa  Xexclude from comparisonKairosDB  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLGeoMesa is a distributed spatio-temporal DBMS based on various systems as storage layer.Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument storeTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.86
Rank#205  Overall
#4  Spatial DBMS
Score0.67
Rank#233  Overall
#20  Time Series DBMS
Score0.29
Rank#302  Overall
#21  Search engines
Websitewww.citusdata.comwww.geomesa.orggithub.com/­kairosdb/­kairosdbmanticoresearch.com
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comwww.geomesa.org/­documentation/­stable/­user/­index.htmlkairosdb.github.iomanual.manticoresearch.com
DeveloperCCRi and othersManticore Software
Initial release2010201420132017
Current release8.1, December 20185.0.0, May 20241.2.2, November 20186.0, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCScalaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeFixed schema
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean
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 functionalitynonoCan index from XML
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nonouser defined functions
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingdepending on storage layerSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsdepending on storage layerselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSynchronous replication based on Galera library
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencydepending on storage layerEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nodepending on storage layerno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes infodepending on the DBMS used for storagesimple password-based access controlno

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