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System Properties Comparison Percona Server for MySQL vs. PostGIS vs. TerminusDB vs. XTDB vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

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

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
RDF store

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	2.03
Rank	#122	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Score	2.91
Rank	#102	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Website

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

postgis.net

terminusdb.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

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

postgis.net/documentation

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

www.xtdb.com/docs

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Percona

DataChemist Ltd.

Juxt Ltd.

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2008

2005

2018

2019

2017

Current release

8.0.36-28, 2024

3.4.2, February 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

1.19, September 2021

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

GPL V3

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Prolog, Rust

Clojure

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

HTTP REST
JDBC

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

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

JavaScript
Python

Clojure
Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Graph Partitioning

none

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Journaling Streams

yes, each node contains all data

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

in-memory journaling

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

yes

based on RocksDB

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

based on PostgreSQL

Role-based access control

yes

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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