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System Properties Comparison Citus vs. Hive vs. InfluxDB vs. TinkerGraph vs. YDB

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonHive  Xexclude from comparisonInfluxDB  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
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 HadoopDBMS for storing time series, events and metricsA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 APIA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS infowith GEO package
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score61.17
Rank#18  Overall
#12  Relational DBMS
Score25.83
Rank#28  Overall
#1  Time Series DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#348  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Score0.35
Rank#278  Overall
#43  Document stores
#127  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comhive.apache.orgwww.influxdata.com/­products/­influxdb-overviewtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlingithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comcwiki.apache.org/­confluence/­display/­Hive/­Homedocs.influxdata.com/­influxdbydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperApache Software Foundation infoinitially developed by FacebookYandex
Initial release20102012201320092019
Current release8.1, December 20183.1.3, April 20222.7.6, April 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoMIT-License; commercial enterprise version availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0; commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaGoJava
Server operating systemsLinuxAll OS with a Java VMLinux
OS X infothrough Homebrew
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeschema-freeFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesNumeric data and Stringsyesyes
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
Secondary indexesyesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query languagenoSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
Thrift
HTTP API
JSON over UDP
TinkerPop 3RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C++
Java
PHP
Python
.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Groovy
Java
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
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 infouser defined functions and integration of map-reducenonono
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingSharding infoin enterprise version onlynoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsselectable replication factorselectable replication factor infoin enterprise version onlynoneActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infoquery execution via MapReducenonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infoRelationships in graphsno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesnoyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesoptionalyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoDepending on used storage engineyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and rolessimple rights management via user accountsnoAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users
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CitusHiveInfluxDBTinkerGraphYDB
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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