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System Properties Comparison SpaceTime vs. Splunk vs. XTDB vs. Yanza vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

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

Description

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

Analytics Platform for Big Data

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

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

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Wide column store

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	0.03
Rank	#392	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	89.10
Rank	#14	Overall
	#2	Search engines

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Score	2.63
Rank	#109	Overall
	#53	Relational DBMS

Website

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.splunk.com

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

yanza.com

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk

www.xtdb.com/docs

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

Developer

Mireo

Splunk Inc.

Juxt Ltd.

Yanza

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2020

2003

2019

2015

2017

Current release

1.19, September 2021

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited free edition and free developer edition available

Open Source

MIT License

commercial

free version available

Open Source

Apache 2.0

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++

Clojure

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

Splunk Search Processing Language for search commands

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

HTTP REST

HTTP REST
JDBC

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++
Python

C#
Java
JavaScript
PHP
Python
Ruby

Clojure
Java

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

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Timer and event based

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Fixed-grid hypercubes

Sharding

none

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

Multi-source replication

yes, each node contains all data

none

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

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

A 'Transaction' in Splunk has a different meaning: grouping related events into a single one for later searching

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

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

yes

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

yes

Access rights for users and roles

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Market metrics

2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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