DBMS > Cachelot.io vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SWC-DB vs. TimescaleDB vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Cachelot.io vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database vs. SWC-DB vs. TimescaleDB vs. Yanza

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Name

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

Description

In-memory caching system

Database as a Service offering with high compatibility to Microsoft SQL Server

A high performance, scalable Wide Column DBMS

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

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	77.99
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#376	Overall
	#13	Wide column stores

Score	4.64
Rank	#71	Overall
	#4	Time Series DBMS

Website

cachelot.io

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/azure-sql/database

github.com/kashirin-alex/swc-db
www.swcdb.org

www.timescale.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-sql

docs.timescale.com

Developer

Microsoft

Alex Kashirin

Timescale

Yanza

Initial release

2015

2010

2020

2017

2015

Current release

V12

0.5, April 2021

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

hosted

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

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

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary protocol
Thrift

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

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

.Net
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C++

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Transact SQL

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

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, with always 3 replicas available

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

none

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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