DBMS > Dolt vs. MySQL vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SingleStore vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison Dolt vs. MySQL vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. SingleStore vs. YDB

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Name

Description

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

Widely used open source RDBMS

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

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

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#191	Overall
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	5.38
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#287	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

www.mysql.com

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.singlestore.com

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

Technical documentation

docs.dolthub.com

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

docs.singlestore.com

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

DoltHub Inc

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Percona

SingleStore Inc.

Yandex

Initial release

2018

1995

2015

2013

2019

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

8.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPL Version 2

commercial

free developer edition available

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++

C++

C++, Go

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

64 bit version required

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

but no triggers and foreign keys

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

currently in alpha release

yes

proprietary syntax

JavaScript

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

hash partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users and roles

Fine grained access control via users, groups and roles

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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