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Citus vs MemSQL: 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 MemSQL? Database for real-time transactions and analytics. MemSQL converges transactions and analytics for sub-second data processing and reporting. Real-time businesses can build robust applications on a simple and scalable infrastructure that complements and extends existing data pipelines.

Citus and MemSQL are primarily classified as "Databases" and "In-Memory Databases" tools respectively.

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, MemSQL provides the following key features:

  • ANSI SQL Support
  • Fully-distributed Joins
  • Compiled Queries

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.

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Pros of MemSQL
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    Multi-core Parallel Processing
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    Drop-in PostgreSQL replacement
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    Distributed with Auto-Sharding
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    Distributed
  • 5
    Realtime
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    Columnstore
  • 4
    Sql
  • 4
    Concurrent
  • 4
    JSON
  • 3
    Ultra fast
  • 3
    Scalable
  • 2
    Unlimited Storage Database
  • 2
    Pipeline
  • 2
    Mixed workload
  • 2
    Availability Group

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What is Citus?

It's an extension to Postgres that distributes data and queries in a cluster of multiple machines. Its query engine parallelizes incoming SQL queries across these servers to enable human real-time (less than a second) responses on large datasets.

What is MemSQL?

MemSQL converges transactions and analytics for sub-second data processing and reporting. Real-time businesses can build robust applications on a simple and scalable infrastructure that complements and extends existing data pipelines.

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