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System Properties Comparison BigObject vs. TimescaleDB vs. Transbase vs. YDB

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Name

Description

Analytic DBMS for real-time computations and queries

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

a hierachical model (tree) can be imposed

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.13
Rank	#329	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	4.06
Rank	#73	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#355	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	0.39
Rank	#269	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#126	Relational DBMS

Website

bigobject.io

www.timescale.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

docs.bigobject.io

docs.timescale.com

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

BigObject, Inc.

Timescale

Transaction Software GmbH

Yandex

Initial release

2015

2017

1987

2019

Current release

2.15.0, May 2024

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free community edition available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free development license

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

distributed as a docker-image
OS X

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)
Windows

distributed as a docker-image (boot2docker)

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

yes

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

fluentd
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

Source-replica replication

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

automatically between fact table and dimension tables

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Read/write lock on objects (tables, trees)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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