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System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. Postgres-XL vs. Quasardb vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	0.09
Rank	#360	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

doc.quasar.ai/master

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Mobiland AG

quasardb

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2018

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2009

2001

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

10 R1, October 2018

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Windows

Linux
macOS

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

SQL-like query language

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

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

HTTP API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

ACID

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Windows-Profile

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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