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System Properties Comparison Percona Server for MySQL vs. Postgres-XL vs. STSdb vs. TerarkDB vs. YottaDB

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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.

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDB

A fast and solid embedded Key-value store

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

using the Octo plugin

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Score	2.03
Rank	#122	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#60	Key-value stores

Score	0.20
Rank	#317	Overall
	#47	Key-value stores

Website

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

www.postgres-xl.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

github.com/bytedance/terarkdb

yottadb.com

Technical documentation

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

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

bytedance.larkoffice.com/docs/doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc

yottadb.com/resources/documentation

Developer

Percona

STS Soft SC

ByteDance, originally Terark

YottaDB, LLC

Initial release

2008

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2011

2016

2001

Current release

8.0.36-28, 2024

10 R1, October 2018

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

restricted open source version available

Open Source

AGPL 3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
macOS

Windows

Docker
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

by using the Octo plugin

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

.NET Client API

C++ API
Java API

PostgreSQL wire protocol

using the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol

Supported programming languages

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

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C#
Java

C++
Java

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

none

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

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

optimistic locking

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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