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Citus vs FoundationDB: 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 FoundationDB? Multi-model database with particularly strong fault tolerance, performance, and operational ease. FoundationDB is a NoSQL database with a shared nothing architecture. Designed around a "core" ordered key-value database, additional features and data models are supplied in layers. The key-value database, as well as all layers, supports full, cross-key and cross-server ACID transactions.
Citus and FoundationDB belong to "Databases" category of the tech stack.
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, FoundationDB provides the following key features:
- Multiple data models
- Full, multi-key ACID transactions
- No locking
"Multi-core Parallel Processing" is the top reason why over 3 developers like Citus, while over 2 developers mention "ACID transactions" as the leading cause for choosing FoundationDB.
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.
So, we started using foundationDB for an OLAP system although the inbuilt tools for some core things like aggregation and filtering were negligible, with the high through put of the DB, we were able to handle it on the application. The system has been running pretty well for the past 6 months, although the data load isn’t very high yet, the performance is fairly promising
Pros of Citus
- Multi-core Parallel Processing6
- Drop-in PostgreSQL replacement3
- Distributed with Auto-Sharding2
Pros of FoundationDB
- ACID transactions6
- Linear scalability5
- Multi-model database3
- Key-Value Store3
- Great Foundation3
- SQL Layer1
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