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System Properties Comparison Percona Server for MySQL vs. RethinkDB vs. SingleStore vs. STSdb vs. VelocityDB

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NamePercona Server for MySQL  Xexclude from comparisonRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQL  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEnhanced drop-in replacement for MySQL based on XtraDB or TokuDB storage engines with improved performance and additional diagnostic and management features.DBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table typeKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSKey-value storeGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS
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Score2.03
Rank#122  Overall
#57  Relational DBMS
Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score5.60
Rank#62  Overall
#35  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#360  Overall
#52  Key-value stores
Score0.05
Rank#358  Overall
#36  Graph DBMS
#16  Object oriented DBMS
Websitewww.percona.com/­software/­mysql-database/­percona-serverrethinkdb.comwww.singlestore.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4velocitydb.com
Technical documentationwww.percona.com/­downloads/­Percona-Server-LATESTrethinkdb.com/­docsdocs.singlestore.comvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperPerconaThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017SingleStore Inc.STS Soft SCVelocityDB Inc
Initial release20082009201320112011
Current release8.0.36-28, 20242.4.1, August 20208.5, January 20244.0.8, September 20157.x
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPL version 2Open Source infoApache Version 2commercial infofree developer edition availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C++C++, GoC#C#
Server operating systemsLinuxLinux
OS X
Windows
Linux info64 bit version requiredWindowsAny that supports .NET
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)yes
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.yesnonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesnoyes infobut no triggers and foreign keysnono
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Cluster Management API infoas HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC
.NET Client API.Net
Supported programming languagesAda
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C infocommunity-supported driver
C# infocommunity-supported driver
C++ infocommunity-supported driver
Clojure infocommunity-supported driver
Dart infocommunity-supported driver
Erlang infocommunity-supported driver
Go infocommunity-supported driver
Haskell infocommunity-supported driver
Java infoofficial driver
JavaScript (Node.js) infoofficial driver
Lisp infocommunity-supported driver
Lua infocommunity-supported driver
Objective-C infocommunity-supported driver
Perl infocommunity-supported driver
PHP infocommunity-supported driver
Python infoofficial driver
Ruby infoofficial driver
Scala infocommunity-supported driver
Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
Java
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyesnono
TriggersyesClient-side triggers through changefeedsnonoCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding inforange basedSharding infohash partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster
Source-replica replicationSource-replica replication infostores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodesnone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno infocan define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculationsnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDAtomic single-document operationsACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCC basedyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoAll updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.yesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesnoyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyes infousers and table-level permissionsFine grained access control via users, groups and rolesnoBased on Windows Authentication
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Percona Server for MySQLRethinkDBSingleStore infoformer name was MemSQLSTSdbVelocityDB
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Key customersIEX Cloud : Improves Financial Data Distribution Speed 15x with Singlestore DB Comcast,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsF ree Tier and Enterprise Edition
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