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System Properties Comparison Citus vs. Google Cloud Firestore vs. InfluxDB vs. Manticore Search vs. Sadas Engine

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonGoogle Cloud Firestore  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonManticore Search  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLCloud Firestore is an auto-scaling document database for storing, syncing, and querying data for mobile and web apps. It offers seamless integration with other Firebase and Google Cloud Platform products.DBMS for storing time series, events and metricsMulti-storage database for search, including full-text search.SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS infowith GEO packageTime Series DBMS infousing the Manticore Columnar Library
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Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score7.85
Rank#51  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.22
Rank#312  Overall
#21  Search engines
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comfirebase.google.com/­products/­firestorewww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewmanticoresearch.comwww.sadasengine.com
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comfirebase.google.com/­docs/­firestoredocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbmanual.manticoresearch.comwww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentation
DeveloperGoogleManticore SoftwareSADAS s.r.l.
Initial release20102017201320172006
Current release8.1, December 20182.7.6, April 20246.0, February 20238.0
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialOpen Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoGPL version 2commercial infofree trial version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenoyesnonono
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Implementation languageCGoC++C++
Server operating systemsLinuxhostedLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows
AIX
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeFixed schemayes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and StringsInt, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Booleanyes
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 XMLno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Android
gRPC (using protocol buffers) API
iOS
JavaScript API
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
Python
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yes, Firebase Rules & Cloud Functionsnouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesyes, with Cloud Functionsnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlySharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsMulti-source replicationselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlySynchronous replication based on Galera librarynone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoUsing Cloud Dataflownonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDyesnoyes infoisolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoDepending on used storage engineyes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles based on Google Cloud Identity and Access Management. Security Rules for 3rd party authentication using Firebase Auth.simple rights management via user accountsnoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard
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CitusGoogle Cloud FirestoreInfluxDBManticore SearchSadas Engine
Specific characteristicsInfluxData is the creator of InfluxDB , the open source time series database. It...
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Competitive advantagesTime to Value InfluxDB is available in all the popular languages and frameworks,...
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Typical application scenariosIoT & Sensor Monitoring Developers are witnessing the instrumentation of every available...
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Key customersInfluxData has more than 1,900 paying customers, including customers include MuleSoft,...
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Market metricsFastest-growing database to drive 27,500 GitHub stars Over 750,000 daily active instances
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source core with closed source clustering available either on-premise or on...
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