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Name

Description

Distributed Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra or H2

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

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

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	0.67
Rank	#214	Overall
	#16	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#328	Overall
	#147	Relational DBMS

Score	3.52
Rank	#97	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/kairosdb/kairosdb

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

kairosdb.github.io

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

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

Developer

Transaction Software GmbH

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2013

1987

2017

Current release

1.2.2, November 2018

Transbase 8.4, September 2020

2.14, July 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free development license

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

depending on used data model

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

Graphite protocol
HTTP REST
Telnet API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native 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

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

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

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

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.

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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

900,000+ lifetime clusters deployed 5.5K+ GitHub stars 4.3K+ YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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