DBMS > Quasardb vs. SQLite vs. TimescaleDB vs. VictoriaMetrics vs. Yanza

System Properties Comparison Quasardb vs. SQLite vs. TimescaleDB vs. VictoriaMetrics vs. Yanza

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Name

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

Description

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

A time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL

A fast, cost-effective and scalable Time Series DBMS and monitoring solution

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	4.46
Rank	#71	Overall
	#5	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.23
Rank	#172	Overall
	#15	Time Series DBMS

Website

yanza.com

Technical documentation

doc.quasar.ai/master

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

docs.timescale.com

docs.victoriametrics.com
github.com/VictoriaMetrics/VictoriaMetrics/wiki

Developer

quasardb

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Timescale

VictoriaMetrics

Yanza

Initial release

2009

2000

2017

2018

2015

Current release

3.14.1, January 2024

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

2.15.0, May 2024

v1.91, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

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

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
OpenBSD

Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

dynamic column types

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types

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

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

full PostgreSQL SQL syntax

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

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

Graphite protocol
InfluxDB Line Protocol
OpenTSDB
Prometheus Query API
Prometheus Remote Read/Write

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java

JDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

yes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

none

Source-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas

Synchronous replication

none

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

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

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

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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