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Citus vs ToroDB: 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 ToroDB? Open source, document-oriented, JSON database that runs on top of PostgreSQL. ToroDB is an open source, document-oriented, JSON database that runs on top of PostgreSQL, providing storage and I/O savings and ACID semantics. ToroDB is MongoDB-compatible, so you can use Mongo clients to connect to it.
Citus and ToroDB can be categorized 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, ToroDB provides the following key features:
- Document-oriented (JSON)
- Store data reliabily and durably with PostgreSQL
- Use MongoDB clients to connect to it
Citus and ToroDB are both open source tools. It seems that Citus with 3.64K GitHub stars and 273 forks on GitHub has more adoption than ToroDB with 10 GitHub stars and 2 GitHub forks.
Pros of Citus
- Multi-core Parallel Processing6
- Drop-in PostgreSQL replacement3
- Distributed with Auto-Sharding2
Pros of ToroDB
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