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System Properties Comparison Graph Engine vs. Microsoft Azure SQL Database 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

A distributed in-memory data processing engine, underpinned by a strongly-typed RAM store and a general distributed computation engine

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

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

Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

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

Score	0.67
Rank	#232	Overall
	#21	Graph DBMS
	#34	Key-value stores

Score	76.78
Rank	#16	Overall
	#11	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.63
Rank	#109	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

www.graphengine.io

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

www.mireo.com/spacetime

yanza.com

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

www.graphengine.io/docs/manual

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

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

Developer

Microsoft

Mireo

Yanza

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2010

2020

2015

2017

Current release

V12

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

free version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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

.NET and C

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

.NET

hosted

Linux

Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

depending on used data model

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

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

C#
C++
F#
Visual Basic

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

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

Transact SQL

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Fixed-grid hypercubes

none

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, with always 3 replicas available

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

ACID

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

optional: either by committing a write-ahead log (WAL) to the local persistent storage or by dumping the memory to a persistent storage

yes

based on RocksDB

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

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

2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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