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System Properties Comparison MySQL vs. OpenMLDB vs. OpenQM vs. TerminusDB vs. YDB

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Name

Description

Widely used open source RDBMS

An open-source machine learning database that provides a feature platform for training and inference

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

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

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Graph DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.02
Rank	#367	Overall
	#37	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#298	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

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

Website

www.mysql.com

openmldb.ai

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

terminusdb.com

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

Technical documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

openmldb.ai/docs/zh/main

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

4 Paradigm Inc.

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

DataChemist Ltd.

Yandex

Initial release

1995

2020

1993

2018

2019

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

2024-2 February 2024

3.4-12

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++, Java, Scala

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Fixed schema

yes

with some exceptions

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, 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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
SQLAlchemy

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

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++
Go
Java
Python
Scala

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

JavaScript
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

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

horizontal partitioning

yes

Graph Partitioning

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

yes

Journaling Streams

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

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

in-memory journaling

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Role-based access control

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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