DBMS > Percona Server for MySQL vs. Quasardb vs. Snowflake vs. TimesTen vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison Percona Server for MySQL vs. Quasardb vs. Snowflake vs. TimesTen 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.

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Cloud-based data warehousing service for structured and semi-structured data

In-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	2.10
Rank	#119	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	130.36
Rank	#8	Overall
	#5	Relational DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#161	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Score	2.63
Rank	#109	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

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

quasar.ai

www.snowflake.com

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

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

doc.quasar.ai/master

docs.snowflake.net/manuals/index.html

docs.oracle.com/database/timesten-18.1

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

Developer

Percona

quasardb

Snowflake Computing Inc.

Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2008

2009

2014

1998

2017

Current release

8.0.36-28, 2024

3.14.1, January 2024

11 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

support of semi-structured data formats (JSON, XML, Avro)

yes

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL-like query language

yes

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C
C++
Java
PL/SQL

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

user defined functions

PL/SQL

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

similar concept for controling cloud resources

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

consistent hashing

yes

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

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

by using LevelDB

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

yes

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

Users with fine-grained authorization concept, user roles and pluggable authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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Licensing and pricing models

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