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System Properties Comparison RocksDB vs. STSdb vs. Vertica vs. Yanza vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

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

Description

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

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

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

Primary database model

Column oriented

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	2.84
Rank	#97	Overall
	#16	Key-value stores

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Score	9.62
Rank	#42	Overall
	#26	Relational DBMS

Score	2.48
Rank	#108	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

rocksdb.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.vertica.com

yanza.com

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

vertica.com/documentation

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

Developer

Facebook, Inc.

STS Soft SC

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

Yanza

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2013

2011

2005

2015

2017

Current release

9.4.0, June 2024

4.0.8, September 2015

12.0.3, January 2023

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

commercial

Limited community edition free

commercial

free version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Windows

Linux

Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

schema-free

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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.

Secondary indexes

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

C++ API
Java API

.NET Client API

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

HTTP API

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

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

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

any language that supports HTTP calls

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes, called Custom Alerts

yes

Timer and event based

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

none

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

none

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

none

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

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Bi-directional Spark integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

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

yes

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

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

yes

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Typical application scenarios

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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