DBMS > BaseX vs. Manticore Search vs. SpaceTime vs. Yanza vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. Manticore Search vs. SpaceTime vs. Yanza vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

Multi-storage database for search, including full-text search.

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

using the Manticore Columnar Library

Relational DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	1.56
Rank	#141	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.23
Rank	#301	Overall
	#21	Search engines

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.48
Rank	#108	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

basex.org

manticoresearch.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

yanza.com

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

manual.manticoresearch.com

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Manticore Software

Mireo

Yanza

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2007

2017

2020

2015

2017

Current release

11.2, August 2024

6.0, February 2023

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

free version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

Fixed schema

yes

schema-free

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

Int, Bigint, Float, Timestamp, Bit, Int array, Bigint array, JSON, Boolean

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

Can index from XML

Secondary indexes

yes

full-text index on all search fields

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

Binary API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP/SQL API
SQL over MySQL

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP API

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

Elixir
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

C#
C++
Python

any language that supports HTTP calls

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

via events

yes

Timer and event based

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

Partitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported

Fixed-grid hypercubes

none

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Synchronous replication based on Galera library

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

none

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

multiple readers, single writer

yes

isolated transactions for atomic changes and binary logging for safe writes

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

The original contents of fields are not stored in the Manticore index.

yes

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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