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Citus vs IBM DB2: What are the differences?
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; IBM DB2: A family of database server products developed by IBM. DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows is optimized to deliver industry-leading performance across multiple workloads, while lowering administration, storage, development, and server costs.
Citus and IBM DB2 can be primarily classified as "Databases" tools.
"Multi-core Parallel Processing" is the top reason why over 3 developers like Citus, while over 5 developers mention "Rock solid and very scalable" as the leading cause for choosing IBM DB2.
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 Processing5
- Drop-in PostgreSQL replacement2
- Distributed with Auto-Sharding2
Pros of IBM DB2
- Rock solid and very scalable7
- BLU Analytics is amazingly fast5
- Native XML support2
- Secure by default2
- Easy2
- Best performance1