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System Properties Comparison JaguarDB vs. Kingbase vs. Vitess

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Name

Description

Performant, highly scalable DBMS for AI and IoT applications

An enterprise-class RDBMS compatible with PostgreSQL and Oracle and widely used in China.

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Primary database model

Key-value store
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#55	Key-value stores
	#20	Vector DBMS

Score	0.41
Rank	#259	Overall
	#120	Relational DBMS

Score	0.99
Rank	#185	Overall
	#84	Relational DBMS

Website

www.jaguardb.com

www.kingbase.com.cn

vitess.io

Technical documentation

www.jaguardb.com/support.html

vitess.io/docs

Developer

DataJaguar, Inc.

BeiJing KINGBASE Information technologies inc.

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Initial release

2015

1999

2013

Current release

3.3 July 2023

V8.0, August 2021

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL V3.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

the server part. Clients available in other languages

C and Java

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

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

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

but no views, foreign keys, triggers

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
gokb
JDBC
kdbndp
ODBC
PDI
PDO
Pro*C
psycopg2
QT

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

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

rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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