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Citus vs ClustrixDB: What are the differences?
What is Citus? Worry-free Postgres for SaaS. Built to scale out. Citus is worry-free Postgres for SaaS. Made to scale out, Citus is an extension to Postgres that distributes queries across any number of servers. Citus is available as open source, as on-prem software, and as a fully-managed service.
What is ClustrixDB? Clustered SQL database built for e-commerce. ClustrixDB is a scale-out SQL database built from the ground up with a distributed shared nothing architecture, automatic data redistribution (so you never need to shard), with built in fault tolerance, all accessible by a simple SQL interface and support for business critical MySQL features – replication, triggers, stored routines, etc.
Citus and ClustrixDB can be primarily classified as "Databases" tools.
Some of the features offered by Citus are:
- Multi-Node Scalable PostgreSQL
- Built-in Replication and High Availability
- Real-time Reads/Writes On Multiple Nodes
On the other hand, ClustrixDB provides the following key features:
- Is built from the ground up with a shared-nothing architecture. There is no MySQL code in ClustrixDB
- Is built to scale transactions while maintaning ACID
- Scales to add capacity by simply adding commodity servers to the cluster
Citus is an open source tool with 3.64K GitHub stars and 273 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Citus's open source repository on GitHub.
Pros of Citus
- Multi-core Parallel Processing6
- Drop-in PostgreSQL replacement3
- Distributed with Auto-Sharding2
Pros of ClustrixDB
- ClustrixDB is a scale-out RDBMS and drop-in replacement1
- Very High Connection Count1
- Relational Scale-Out database1











