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System Properties Comparison MySQL vs. ObjectBox vs. Percona Server for MySQL vs. RRDtool vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

Widely used open source RDBMS

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Enhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.

Industry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database.

The data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.20
Rank	#170	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	2.03
Rank	#122	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	1.87
Rank	#136	Overall
	#11	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

www.mysql.com

objectbox.io

www.percona.com/software/mysql-database/percona-server

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.objectbox.io

www.percona.com/downloads/Percona-Server-LATEST

oss.oetiker.ch/rrdtool/doc

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

ObjectBox Limited

Percona

Tobias Oetiker

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

1995

2017

2008

1999

2001

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

8.0.36-28, 2024

1.8.0, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

GPL V2 and FLOSS

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Implementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux

HP-UX
Linux

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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

Exporting into and restoring from XML files possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Proprietary native API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

in-process shared library
Pipes

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

with librrd library
C#

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Java

with a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js)

with a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP

with a wrapper library
Python
Ruby

C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

online/offline synchronization between client and server

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

by using the rrdcached daemon

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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