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DBMS > Citus vs. Infobright vs. JaguarDB vs. Linter vs. RRDtool

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. Infobright vs. JaguarDB vs. Linter vs. RRDtool

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonInfobright  Xexclude from comparisonJaguarDB  Xexclude from comparisonLinter  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLHigh performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontendPerformant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applicationsRDBMS for high security requirementsIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeSpatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.21
Rank#118  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score0.96
Rank#194  Overall
#91  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#60  Key-value stores
#13  Vector DBMS
Score0.09
Rank#346  Overall
#152  Relational DBMS
Score1.87
Rank#136  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comignitetech.com/­softwarelibrary/­infobrightdbwww.jaguardb.comlinter.ruoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comwww.jaguardb.com/­support.htmloss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperIgnite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.DataJaguar, Inc.relex.ruTobias Oetiker
Initial release20102005201519901999
Current release8.1, December 20183.3 July 20231.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercial infoThe open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016Open Source infoGPL V3.0commercialOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCCC++ infothe server part. Clients available in other languagesC and C++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Windows
LinuxAIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesNumeric data only
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 infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesno infoKnowledge Grid Technology used insteadyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsyesA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infobut no views, foreign keys, triggersyesno
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
in-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.nonoyes infoproprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQLno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingnoneShardingnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard infoexploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilitiesrights management via user accountsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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