DBMS > Percona Server for MySQL vs. RocksDB vs. Vitess vs. VoltDB vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Percona Server for MySQL vs. RocksDB vs. Vitess vs. VoltDB vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

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

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.10
Rank	#119	Overall
	#57	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.88
Rank	#203	Overall
	#95	Relational DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Website

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

rocksdb.org

vitess.io

www.voltdb.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

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

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

vitess.io/docs

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

Percona

Facebook, Inc.

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

VoltDB Inc.

Yanza

Initial release

2008

2013

2010

2015

Current release

8.0.36-28, 2024

9.2.1, May 2024

15.0.2, December 2022

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Docker
Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X

for development

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

with proprietary extensions

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Java

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication
XtraDB Cluster

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

yes

ACID at shard level

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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