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DBMS > Citus vs. IRONdb vs. Newts vs. OpenTSDB vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. IRONdb vs. Newts vs. OpenTSDB vs. Quasardb

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonIRONdb  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  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 PostgreSQLA distributed Time Series DBMS with a focus on scalability, fault tolerance and operational simplicityTime Series DBMS based on CassandraScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series 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
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comwww.circonus.com/solutions/time-series-database/opennms.github.io/­newtsopentsdb.netquasar.ai
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comdocs.circonus.com/irondb/category/getting-startedgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikiopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperCirconus LLC.OpenNMS Groupcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsquasardb
Initial release20102017201420112009
Current release8.1, December 2018V0.10.20, January 20183.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPLcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC and C++JavaJavaC++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infotext, numeric, histogramsyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes infointeger and binary
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 functionalitynononono
Secondary indexesyesnononoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsSQL-like query language (Circonus Analytics Query Language: CAQL)nonoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP APIHTTP REST
Java API
HTTP API
Telnet API
HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
JavaErlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.yes, in Luanonono
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingAutomatic, metric affinity per nodeSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infobased on HBaseSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsconfigurable replication factor, datacenter awareselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate consistency per node, eventual consistency across nodesEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnononoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonononoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnononoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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