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System Properties Comparison SAP IQ vs. STSdb vs. Tarantool vs. TiDB vs. YTsaurus

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Name

Description

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

In-memory computing platform with a flexible data schema for efficiently building high-performance applications

TiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.

YTsaurus is an open source platform for distributed storage and processing.

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Key-value store

Document store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with Tarantool/GIS extension

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	2.64
Rank	#108	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#357	Overall
	#51	Key-value stores

Score	1.67
Rank	#143	Overall
	#25	Document stores
	#25	Key-value stores
	#65	Relational DBMS

Score	4.25
Rank	#74	Overall
	#40	Relational DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#324	Overall
	#45	Document stores
	#48	Key-value stores

Website

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

www.tarantool.io

pingcap.com

ytsaurus.tech

Technical documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

www.tarantool.io/en/doc

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

ytsaurus.tech/docs/en

Developer

SAP, formerly Sybase

STS Soft SC

PingCAP, Inc.

Yandex

Initial release

1994

2011

2008

2016

2023

Current release

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

4.0.8, September 2015

2.10.0, May 2022

8.1.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

BSD-2, source-available extensions (modules), commercial licenses for Tarantool Enterprise

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License, Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Go, Rust

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

Windows

BSD
Linux
macOS

Linux

Ubuntu

Data scheme

yes

Flexible data schema: relational definition for tables with ability to store json-like documents in columns

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

string, double, decimal, uuid, integer, blob, boolean, datetime

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

yes

YQL, an SQL-based language, is supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

.NET Client API

Open binary protocol

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

C
C#
C++
Erlang
Go
Java
JavaScript
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Rust

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

C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Lua, C and SQL stored procedures

Triggers

yes

yes, before/after data modification events, on replication events, client session events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Sharding, partitioned with virtual buckets by user defined affinity key. Live resharding for scale up and scale down without maintenance downtime.

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

none

Asynchronous replication with multi-master option
Configurable replication topology (full-mesh, chain, star)
Synchronous quorum replication (with Raft)

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

yes

with TiSpark Connector

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Casual consistency across sharding partitions
Eventual consistency within replicaset partition

when using asyncronous replication
Immediate Consistency within single instance
Sequential consistency including linearizable read within replicaset partition

when using Raft

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

full support since version 6.6

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID, with serializable isolation and linearizable read (within partition); Configurable MVCC (within partition); No cross-shard distributed transactions

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, cooperative multitasking

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, write ahead logging

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes, full featured in-memory storage engine with persistence

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access Control Lists
Mutual TLS authentication for Tarantol Enterprise
Password based authentication
Role-based access control (RBAC) and LDAP for Tarantol Enterprise
Users and Roles

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access Control Lists

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

Block, Pinterest, Catalyst, Bolt, Flipkart, Capcom, Shopee (E-commerce), JD Cloud...
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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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