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System Properties Comparison etcd vs. InterSystems IRIS vs. Kdb vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. YugabyteDB

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Nameetcd  Xexclude from comparisonInterSystems IRIS  Xexclude from comparisonKdb  Xexclude from comparisonUniData,UniVerse  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA distributed reliable key-value storeA containerised multi-model DBMS, interoperability and analytics data platform with wide capabilities for vertical and horizontal scalabilityHigh performance Time Series DBMSMultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilitiesHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelKey-value storeDocument store
Key-value store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
Multivalue DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score7.25
Rank#54  Overall
#5  Key-value stores
Score4.05
Rank#83  Overall
#14  Document stores
#10  Key-value stores
#1  Object oriented DBMS
#45  Relational DBMS
Score7.55
Rank#53  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
#1  Vector DBMS
Score3.16
Rank#97  Overall
#2  Multivalue DBMS
Score2.91
Rank#102  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Websiteetcd.io
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd
www.intersystems.com/­products/­intersystems-iriskx.comwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-unidatawww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationetcd.io/­docs
github.com/­etcd-io/­etcd/­tree/­master/­Documentation
docs.intersystems.com/­irislatest/­csp/­docbook/­DocBook.UI.Page.clscode.kx.comdocs.rocketsoftware.com/­bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidatadocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperInterSystemsKx Systems, a division of First Derivatives plcRocket SoftwareYugabyte Inc.
Initial release20182000 infokdb was released 2000, kdb+ in 200319852017
Current release3.4, August 20192023.3, June 20233.6, May 20182.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialcommercial infofree 32-bit versioncommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageGoqCC and C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
Windows infoexperimental
AIX
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freedepending on used data modelyesschema-freedepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or datenoyesyesoptionalyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyesyesno
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infotable attribute 'grouped'yesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyesSQL-like query language (q)yesyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsgRPC
JSON over HTTP
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
HTTP API
JDBC
Jupyter
Kafka
ODBC
WebSocket
Java API infoJPA
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based 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.Net
C
C++
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Tcl
.Net
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
J
Java
JavaScript
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Scala
.Net
Basic infoU2 Basic
C
Java
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsyesyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersyes, watching key changesyesyes infowith viewsyes infoU2 Basicyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesShardinghorizontal partitioningnoneHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesUsing Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.Source-replica replicationSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationBased on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono infosimilar paradigm used for internal processingnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDnoACID infoconfigurableDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesrights management via user accountsAccess rights according to SQL-standard and operating system basedyes
More information provided by the system vendor
etcdInterSystems IRISKdbUniData,UniVerseYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsInterSystems IRIS is a complete cloud-first data platform which includes a multi-model...
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Integrated columnar database & programming system for streaming, real time and historical...
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YugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesprovides seamless scalability; runs on industry standard server platforms; is top-ranked...
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PostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariostick database streaming sensor data massive intelligence applications oil and gas...
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Systems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Key customersGoldman Sachs Morgan Stanley Merrill Lynch J.P. Morgan Deutsche Bank IEX Securities...
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Market metricskdb+ performance and reliability proven by our customers in critical infrastructure...
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2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsupon request
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Apache 2.0 license for the database
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