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System Properties Comparison MySQL vs. StarRocks vs. YottaDB

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Name

Description

Widely used open source RDBMS

An open source, high-performance columnar analytical database that enables real-time, multi-dimensional, and highly concurrent data analytics

Forked from Apache Doris

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	1022.76
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.96
Rank	#193	Overall
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#316	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

www.mysql.com

www.starrocks.io

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.starrocks.io/en-us/latest/introduction/StarRocks_intro

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

The Linux Foundation

since Feb 2023

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

1995

2020

2001

Current release

9.0.0, July 2024

3.3, June 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++, Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

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

yes

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
MySQL protocol

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

Java

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

horizontal partitioning (by range and hash)

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

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

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

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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