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System Properties Comparison SingleStore vs. VoltDB vs. Yanza

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Name

Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded 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

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

Time Series DBMS for IoT Applications

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
Vector DBMS

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Score	3.69
Rank	#70	Overall
	#37	Relational DBMS

Score	1.21
Rank	#164	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

www.singlestore.com

www.voltdb.com

yanza.com

Technical documentation

docs.singlestore.com

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

SingleStore Inc.

VoltDB Inc.

Yanza

Initial release

2013

2010

2015

Current release

8.5, January 2024

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free developer edition available

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

commercial

free version available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

but mainly used as a service provided by Yanza

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Implementation language

C++, Go

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Linux

64 bit version required

Linux
OS X

for development

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

APIs and other access methods

Cluster Management API

as HTTP Rest and CLI
HTTP API
JDBC
MongoDB API
ODBC

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

any language that supports HTTP calls

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

hash partitioning

Sharding

none

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

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

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

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

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

Snapshots and command logging

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

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

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More resources

DB-Engines blog posts

Turbocharge Your Application Development Using WebAssembly With SingleStoreDB
17 October 2022, Akmal Chaudhri, SingleStore (sponsor)

Cloud-Based Analytics With SingleStoreDB
9 June 2022, Akmal Chaudhri, SingleStore (sponsor)

SingleStore: The Increasing Momentum of Multi-Model Database Systems
14 February 2022, Akmal Chaudhri, SingleStore (sponsor)

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Recent citations in the news

SingleStore Appoints Nadeem Asghar as Chief Technology Officer
17 April 2025, citybiz

SingleStore Acquires BryteFlow to Accelerate Adoption of Real-Time Analytics, GenAI
3 October 2024, Business Wire

Announcing watsonx.ai and SingleStore for generative AI applications
16 October 2024, IBM

SingleStore acquires BryteFlow to better digest ERP and CRM data
4 October 2024, Blocks and Files

SingleStore's BryteFlow acquisition targets data integration
3 October 2024, TechTarget

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VoltDB Launches Active(N) Lossless Cross Data Center Replication
31 August 2021, PR Newswire

VoltDB Announces Key New Hires
26 October 2021, citybiz

MemSQL, VoltDB Vie For In-Memory Big Data Role
12 February 2015, InformationWeek

VoltDB Adds Geospatial Support to Its Operational InMemory SQL Database
30 January 2016, App Developer Magazine

VoltDB and Google Cloud are working together on 5G Edge Applications
28 June 2021, AiThority

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