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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Embeddable relational database for web apps written in pure JavaScript

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#131	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	0.88
Rank	#203	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Website

google.github.io/lovefield

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

vitess.io

yanza.com

Technical documentation

github.com/google/lovefield/blob/master/docs/spec_index.md

doc.nuodb.com

vitess.io/docs

Developer

Google

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Yanza

Initial release

2014

2013

2015

Current release

2.1.12, February 2017

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

tested with Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Docker
Linux
macOS

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

SQL-like query language

via JavaScript builder pattern

yes

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

JavaScript

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

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

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

Using read-only observers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID at shard level

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes, by using IndexedDB or the cloud service Firebase Realtime Database

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

using MemoryDB

yes

Temporary table

yes

User concepts

Access control

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

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