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DBMS > Citus vs. OpenTSDB vs. PlanetScale vs. SiriDB vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. OpenTSDB vs. PlanetScale vs. SiriDB vs. VoltDB

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonSiriDB  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessOpen Source Time Series DBMSDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.15
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#378  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score1.47
Rank#157  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comopentsdb.netplanetscale.comsiridb.comwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlplanetscale.com/­docsdocs.siridb.comdocs.voltdb.com
Developercurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsPlanetScaleCesbitVoltDB Inc.
Initial release20102011202020172010
Current release8.1, December 201811.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoLGPLcommercialOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageCJavaGoCJava, C++
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
LinuxLinux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesyes infoNumeric datayes
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 indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsnoyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP API
Telnet API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
HTTP APIJava API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.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.noyes infoproprietary syntaxnoJava
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infobased on HBaseShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID at shard levelnoACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolessimple rights management via user accountsUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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