DBMS > MySQL vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. VictoriaMetrics vs. Yanza vs. YottaDB

System Properties Comparison MySQL vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. VictoriaMetrics vs. Yanza vs. YottaDB

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Name

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

Description

Widely used open source RDBMS

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store

Time Series DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.60
Rank	#246	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	1.23
Rank	#172	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#306	Overall
	#44	Key-value stores

Website

www.mysql.com

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

victoriametrics.com

yanza.com

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Percona

VictoriaMetrics

Yanza

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

1995

2015

2018

2015

2001

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free version available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Windows

Docker
Linux

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

proprietary protocol using JSON

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

HTTP API

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

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

any language that supports HTTP calls

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

Synchronous replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

not for MyISAM storage engine

optimistic locking

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 capabilities

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

yes

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users and roles

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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