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DBMS > Citus vs. Hive vs. HugeGraph vs. IRONdb

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. Hive vs. HugeGraph vs. IRONdb

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonHugeGraph  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparison
IRONdb seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLdata warehouse software for querying and managing large distributed datasets, built on HadoopA fast-speed and highly-scalable Graph DBMSA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicity
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score59.76
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score0.17
Rank#335  Overall
#31  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comhive.apache.orggithub.com/­hugegraph
hugegraph.apache.org
www.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homehugegraph.apache.org/­docsdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-started
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookBaiduCirconus LLC.
Initial release2010201220182017
Current release8.1, December 20183.1.3, April 20220.9V0.10.20, January 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCJavaJavaC and C++
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
macOS
Unix
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes infotext, numeric, histograms
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 functionalitynono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infoalso supports composite index and range indexno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsnoSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
Java API
RESTful HTTP API
TinkerPop Gremlin
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Groovy
Java
Python
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yes infouser defined functions and integration of map-reduceasynchronous Gremlin script jobsyes, in Lua
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingyes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseAutomatic, metric affinity per node
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsselectable replication factoryes infodepending on used storage backend, e.g. Cassandra and HBaseconfigurable replication factor, datacenter aware
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducevia hugegraph-sparkno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodes
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infoedges in graphno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolesUsers, roles and permissionsno

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