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System Properties Comparison STSdb vs. TimescaleDB vs. YottaDB

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NameSTSdb  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonYottaDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing methodA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLA fast and solid embedded Key-value store
Primary database modelKey-value storeTime Series DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSRelational DBMS infousing the Octo plugin
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Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Score4.46
Rank#71  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.28
Rank#306  Overall
#44  Key-value stores
Websitegithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4www.timescale.comyottadb.com
Technical documentationdocs.timescale.comyottadb.com/­resources/­documentation
DeveloperSTS Soft SCTimescaleYottaDB, LLC
Initial release201120172001
Current release4.0.8, September 20152.15.0, May 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license availableOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoAGPL 3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonono
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Implementation languageC#CC
Server operating systemsWindowsLinux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)numerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesno
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.yesno
Secondary indexesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxby using the Octo plugin
APIs and other access methods.NET Client APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
PostgreSQL wire protocol infousing the Octo plugin
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC#
Java
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
M
Perl
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas infoyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDoptimistic locking
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers and groups based on OS-security mechanisms

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