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DBMS > Citus vs. jBASE vs. Prometheus vs. QuestDB vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. jBASE vs. Prometheus vs. QuestDB vs. YDB

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonjBASE  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonYDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLA robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middlewareOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataA distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.13
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score1.36
Rank#157  Overall
#3  Multivalue DBMS
Score7.56
Rank#49  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score2.81
Rank#98  Overall
#7  Time Series DBMS
Score0.39
Rank#269  Overall
#43  Document stores
#126  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-jbaseprometheus.ioquestdb.iogithub.com/­ydb-platform/­ydb
ydb.tech
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9prometheus.io/­docsquestdb.io/­docsydb.tech/­en/­docs
DeveloperRocket Software (formerly Zumasys)QuestDB Technology IncYandex
Initial release20101991201520142019
Current release8.1, December 20185.7
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open 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 languageCGoJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsLinuxAIX
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line ProtocolFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalNumeric data onlyyesyes
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 functionalityyesno infoImport of XML data possiblenono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsEmbedded SQL for jBASE in BASICnoSQL with time-series extensionsSQL-like query language (YQL)
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java
.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
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.yesnonono
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingShardingShardinghorizontal partitioning (by timestamps)Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsyesyes infoby FederationSource-replica replication with eventual consistencyActive-passive shard replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACID for single-table writesACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
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 infothrough memory mapped filesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelnoAccess rights defined for Yandex Cloud users
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