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DBMS > Citus vs. Riak KV vs. SpaceTime vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison Citus vs. Riak KV vs. SpaceTime vs. TDengine

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NameCitus  Xexclude from comparisonRiak KV  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQLDistributed, fault tolerant key-value storeSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.Time Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelRelational DBMSKey-value store infowith links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexesSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score2.13
Rank#117  Overall
#56  Relational DBMS
Score3.84
Rank#76  Overall
#9  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#7  Spatial DBMS
Score2.48
Rank#107  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.citusdata.comwww.mireo.com/­spacetimegithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationdocs.citusdata.comwww.tiot.jp/­riak-docs/­riak/­kv/­latestdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperOpenSource, formerly Basho TechnologiesMireoTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release2010200920202019
Current release8.1, December 20183.2.0, December 20223.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoAGPL, commercial license also availableOpen Source infoApache version 2, commercial enterprise editioncommercialOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCErlangC++C
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
LinuxLinux
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyes
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 indexesyesrestrictednono
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infostandard, with numerous extensionsnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languages.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C infounofficial client library
C#
C++ infounofficial client library
Clojure infounofficial client library
Dart infounofficial client library
Erlang
Go infounofficial client library
Groovy infounofficial client library
Haskell infounofficial client library
Java
JavaScript infounofficial client library
Lisp infounofficial client library
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala infounofficial client library
Smalltalk infounofficial client library
C#
C++
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresuser defined functions inforealized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.Erlangnono
Triggersyesyes infopre-commit hooks and post-commit hooksnoyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardingSharding infono "single point of failure"Fixed-grid hypercubesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replication infoother methods possible by using 3rd party extensionsselectable replication factorReal-time block device replication (DRBD)yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesno infolinks between data sets can be storednono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes, using Riak Securityyesyes
More information provided by the system vendor
CitusRiak KVSpaceTimeTDengine
Specific characteristicsTDengineā„¢ is a time-series database designed to help traditional industries overcome...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at Any Scale: With its distributed scalable architecture that grows...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and the Industrial IoT (IIoT) and particularly...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 23,000 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is free, open-source software released under the AGPLv3. TDengine Enterprise...
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