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System Properties Comparison SpaceTime vs. Teradata Aster vs. Yanza vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

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.

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

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

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Score	0.00
Rank	#396	Overall
	#8	Spatial DBMS

Score	3.11
Rank	#99	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Website

www.mireo.com/spacetime

yanza.com

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

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

Developer

Mireo

Teradata

Yanza

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

2020

2005

2015

2017

Current release

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

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++

C and C++

Server operating systems

Linux

Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

schema-free

depending on used data model

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.

yes

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

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
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

any language that supports HTTP calls

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

R packages

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)

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

none

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

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

Systems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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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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