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System Properties Comparison SingleStore vs. SpaceTime vs. VelocityDB vs. Vitess vs. Yaacomo

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Name

Yaacomo seems to be discontinued and is removed from the DB-Engines ranking

Description

MySQL wire-compliant distributed RDBMS that combines an in-memory row-oriented and a disc-based column-oriented storage with patented universal storage to handle transactional and analytical workloads in one single table type

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

A .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)

Scalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL

OpenCL based in-memory RDBMS, designed for efficiently utilizing the hardware via parallel computing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	5.60
Rank	#62	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#358	Overall
	#36	Graph DBMS
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.82
Rank	#209	Overall
	#97	Relational DBMS

Website

www.singlestore.com

www.mireo.com/spacetime

velocitydb.com

vitess.io

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

docs.singlestore.com

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

vitess.io/docs

Developer

SingleStore Inc.

Mireo

VelocityDB Inc

The Linux Foundation, PlanetScale

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2013

2020

2011

2013

2009

Current release

8.5, January 2024

7.x

15.0.2, December 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

commercial

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++, Go

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

64 bit version required

Linux

Any that supports .NET

Docker
Linux
macOS

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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

but no triggers and foreign keys

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API

.Net

ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Bash
C
C#
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

C#
C++
Python

.Net

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

hash partitioning

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

stores two copies of each physical data partition on two separate nodes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can define user-defined aggregate functions for map-reduce-style calculations

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

ACID at shard level

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

All updates are persistent, including those to disk-based columnstores and memory-based row stores. Transaction commits are supported via write-ahead log.

yes

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 control via users, groups and roles

yes

Based on Windows Authentication

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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DB-Engines blog posts

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