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System Properties Comparison Infobright vs. JaguarDB vs. TimescaleDB vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

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

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#381	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores
	#14	Vector DBMS

Score	4.46
Rank	#71	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

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

Website

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.jaguardb.com

www.timescale.com

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

docs.timescale.com

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

DataJaguar, Inc.

Timescale

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2005

2015

2017

2001

Current release

3.3 July 2023

2.15.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

GPL V3.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

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

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

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

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

optimistic locking

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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