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System Properties Comparison KeyDB vs. LeanXcale vs. MySQL vs. Tibero vs. YDB

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Name

Description

An ultra-fast, open source Key-value store fully compatible with Redis API, modules, and protocols

A highly scalable full ACID SQL database with fast NoSQL data ingestion and GIS capabilities

Widely used open source RDBMS

A secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle

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

Key-value store

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.71
Rank	#226	Overall
	#33	Key-value stores

Score	0.29
Rank	#291	Overall
	#41	Key-value stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.78
Rank	#140	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#278	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#127	Relational DBMS

Website

github.com/Snapchat/KeyDB
keydb.dev

www.leanxcale.com

www.mysql.com

us.tmaxsoft.com/products/tibero

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

docs.keydb.dev

dev.mysql.com/doc

technet.tmaxsoft.com/upload/download/online/tibero/pver-20150504-000002/index.html

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

EQ Alpha Technology Ltd.

LeanXcale

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

TmaxSoft

Yandex

Initial release

2019

2015

1995

2003

2019

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

6, April 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

C and Assembler

Server operating systems

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

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

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

partial

Supported data types are strings, hashes, lists, sets and sorted sets, bit arrays, hyperloglogs and geospatial indexes

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

by using the Redis Search module

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

through Apache Derby

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

Proprietary protocol

RESP - REdis Serialization Protoco

JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
proprietary key/value interface
Spark Connector

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Crystal
D
Dart
Elixir
Erlang
Fancy
Go
Haskell
Haxe
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Pascal
Perl
PHP
Prolog
Pure Data
Python
R
Rebol
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Swift
Tcl
Visual Basic

C
Java
Scala

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

C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Lua

yes

proprietary syntax

Persistent Stored Procedure (PSM)

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning

by range, hash, list or composite

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Strong eventual consistency with CRDTs

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

Optimistic locking, atomic execution of commands blocks and scripts

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Configurable mechanisms for persistency via snapshots and/or operations logs

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

planned for next version

User concepts

Access control

simple password-based access control and ACL

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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