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System Properties Comparison Ingres vs. Prometheus vs. Yandex Database (YDB)

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Name

Description

Well established RDBMS

Open-source TimeSeries DBMS and monitoring system

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

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Score	5.84
Rank	#72	Overall
	#39	Relational DBMS

Score	6.32
Rank	#67	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#235	Overall
	#36	Document stores
	#113	Relational DBMS

Website

www.actian.com/data-management/ingres-sql-rdbms

prometheus.io

cloud.yandex.com/en/services/ydb
github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

docs.actian.com/ingres

prometheus.io/docs

cloud.yandex.com/en/docs/ydb
ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Actian Corporation

Yandex

Initial release

1974

originally developed at University Berkely in early 1970s

2015

2019

Current release

11.0, April 2017

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

AIX
HP Open VMS
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

but tools for importing/exporting data from/to XML-files available

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
ODBC
proprietary protocol (OpenAPI)

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Ingres Star to access multiple databases simultaneously

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Ingres Replicator

yes

by Federation

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

MVCC

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

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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