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System Properties Comparison KairosDB vs. Stardog vs. Tkrzw vs. UniData,UniVerse vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

Enterprise Knowledge Graph platform and graph DBMS with high availability, high performance reasoning, and virtualization

A concept of libraries, allowing an application program to store and query key-value pairs in a file. Successor of Tokyo Cabinet and Kyoto Cabinet

MultiValue database and application server with SQL mapping layer and meta database capabilities

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	0.62
Rank	#239	Overall
	#20	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.02
Rank	#123	Overall
	#11	Graph DBMS
	#6	RDF stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	3.16
Rank	#97	Overall
	#2	Multivalue DBMS

Score	2.91
Rank	#102	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.stardog.com

dbmx.net/tkrzw

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-unidata

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

kairosdb.github.io

docs.stardog.com

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?cluster=true&labelkey=unidata&labelkey=prod_unidata

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

Developer

Stardog-Union

Mikio Hirabayashi

Rocket Software

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2013

2010

2020

1985

2017

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

7.3.0, May 2020

0.9.3, August 2020

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

60-day fully-featured trial license; 1-year fully-featured non-commercial use license for academics/students

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

schema-free and OWL/RDFS-schema support

schema-free

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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.

Import/export of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

supports real-time indexing in full-text and geospatial

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Yes, compatible with all major SQL variants through dedicated BI/SQL Server

yes

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

GraphQL query language
HTTP API
Jena RDF API
OWL
RDF4J API
Sesame REST HTTP Protocol
SNARL
SPARQL
Spring Data
Stardog Studio
TinkerPop 3

Java API

JPA
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

Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

.Net
Clojure
Groovy
Java
JavaScript
Python
Ruby

C++
Java
Python
Ruby

.Net
Basic

U2 Basic
C
Java

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions and aggregates, HTTP Server extensions in Java

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

via event handlers

yes

U2 Basic

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

none

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Multi-source replication in HA-Cluster

none

Source-replica replication

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

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Immediate Consistency in HA-Cluster

Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

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

yes

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

using specific database classes

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

Access rights for users and roles

Access rights according to SQL-standard and operating system based

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

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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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