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DBMS > MySQL vs. Trafodion vs. Vitess vs. YTsaurus

System Properties Comparison MySQL vs. Trafodion vs. Vitess vs. YTsaurus

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NameMySQL  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparisonYTsaurus  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionWidely used open source RDBMSTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQLYTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.
Primary database modelRelational DBMS infoKey/Value like access via memcached APIRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1061.34
Rank#2  Overall
#2  Relational DBMS
Score0.88
Rank#203  Overall
#95  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#324  Overall
#45  Document stores
#48  Key-value stores
Websitewww.mysql.comtrafodion.apache.orgvitess.ioytsaurus.tech
Technical documentationdev.mysql.com/­doctrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmlvitess.io/­docsytsaurus.tech/­docs/­en
DeveloperOracle infosince 2010, originally MySQL AB, then SunApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScaleYandex
Initial release1995201420132023
Current release8.4.0, April 20242.3.0, February 201915.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache License, Version 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++, JavaGoC++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Ubuntu
Data schemeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesyes infowith proprietary extensionsYQL, an SQL-based language, is supported
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes infoproprietary syntaxJava Stored Proceduresyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodeshorizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL FabricShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes, via HBaseMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyes infovia user defined functions and HBasenoyes
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infonot for MyISAM storage engineACIDACID at shard levelACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesAccess Control Lists

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