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System Properties Comparison RethinkDB vs. TerminusDB vs. Vitess vs. YugabyteDB

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NameRethinkDB  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionDBMS for the Web with a mechanism to push updated query results to applications in realtime.Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationshipsScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQLHigh-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelDocument storeGraph DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMSDocument store
RDF store
Document store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Wide column store
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Score2.74
Rank#105  Overall
#19  Document stores
Score0.17
Rank#325  Overall
#29  Graph DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Score2.91
Rank#102  Overall
#51  Relational DBMS
Websiterethinkdb.comterminusdb.comvitess.iowww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationrethinkdb.com/­docsterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#vitess.io/­docsdocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperThe Linux Foundation infosince July 2017DataChemist Ltd.The Linux Foundation, PlanetScaleYugabyte Inc.
Initial release2009201820132017
Current release2.4.1, August 202011.0.0, January 202315.0.2, December 20222.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache Version 2Open Source infoGPL V3Open Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageC++Prolog, RustGoC and C++
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Windows
LinuxDocker
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Data schemeschema-freeyesyesdepending on used data model
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, binary, float, bool, date, geometryyesyesyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoSQL-like query language (WOQL)yes infowith proprietary extensionsyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsOWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
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 languagesC 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
JavaScript
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyesyes infoproprietary syntaxyes infosql, plpgsql, C
TriggersClient-side triggers through changefeedsyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding inforange basedGraph PartitioningShardingHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationJournaling StreamsMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataAtomic single-document operationsACIDACID at shard levelDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoMVCC basedyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoin-memory journalingyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlyes infousers and table-level permissionsRole-based access controlUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyes
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RethinkDBTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemistVitessYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsYugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesPostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosSystems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsApache 2.0 license for the database
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