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System Properties Comparison MariaDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. SAP Adaptive Server vs. ScyllaDB vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

MySQL application compatible open source RDBMS, enhanced with high availability, security, interoperability and performance capabilities. MariaDB ColumnStore provides a column-oriented storage engine and MariaDB Xpand supports distributed SQL.

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

The SAP (Sybase) Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is an enterprise-class RDBMS

Cassandra and DynamoDB compatible wide column store

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Graph DBMS

with OQGraph storage engine
Spatial DBMS

Spatial DBMS

with Boeing's Spatial Query Server

Key-value store

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Score	93.21
Rank	#13	Overall
	#9	Relational DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#146	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	36.31
Rank	#25	Overall
	#17	Relational DBMS

Score	4.75
Rank	#68	Overall
	#5	Wide column stores

Score	1.31
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

mariadb.com

Site of MariaDB Corporation
mariadb.org

Site of MariaDB Foundation

opentsdb.net

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-ase.html

www.scylladb.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

mariadb.com/kb/en/library

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_ASE

docs.scylladb.com

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

Developer

MariaDB Corporation Ab (MariaDB Enterprise),
MariaDB Foundation (community MariaDB Server)

The lead developer Monty Widenius is the original author of MySQL

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

SAP, Sybase

ScyllaDB

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

2009

Fork of MySQL, which was first released in 1995

2011

1987

2015

1998

Current release

11.3.2, February 2024

16.0

ScyllaDB Open Source 5.4.1, January 2024

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2, commercial enterprise subscription available

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Open Source

Open Source (AGPL), commercial license available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
Solaris
Windows

ColumnStore storage engine not available on Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Unix
Windows

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Dynamic columns are supported

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

cluster global secondary indices

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements (CQL)

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Telnet API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tabular Data Stream (TDS)

Proprietary protocol (CQL)

compatible with CQL (Cassandra Query Language, an SQL-like language)
RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)
Thrift

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

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

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C
C++
Cobol
Java
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

For CQL interface: C#, C++, Clojure, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rust, Scala
For DynamoDB interface: .Net, ColdFusion, Erlang, Groovy, Java, JavaScript, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

PL/SQL compatibility added with version 10.3

Java and Transact-SQL

yes, Lua

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

several options for horizontal partitioning and Sharding

Sharding

based on HBase

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

Representation of geographical distribution of servers is possible

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

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Tunable Consistency

can be individually decided for each write operation

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Atomicity and isolation are supported for single operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

not for in-memory storage engine

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

with MEMORY storage engine

yes

in-memory tables

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users can be defined per object

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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