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Name

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

Description

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

Cloud or off-cloud analytical database and query engine for structured and semi-structured streaming and batch data. Machine learning platform with built-in algorithms, data preparation capabilities, and model evaluation and management via SQL or Python.

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

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

Primary database model

Graph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Column oriented

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS

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Score	0.11
Rank	#347	Overall
	#35	Graph DBMS
	#15	Object oriented DBMS

Score	11.40
Rank	#43	Overall
	#27	Relational DBMS

Score	1.46
Rank	#159	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

velocitydb.com

www.vertica.com

www.voltdb.com

yaacomo.com

Technical documentation

velocitydb.com/UserGuide

vertica.com/documentation

docs.voltdb.com

Developer

VelocityDB Inc

OpenText

previously Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard

VoltDB Inc.

Q2WEB GmbH

Initial release

2011

2005

2010

2009

Current release

7.x

12.0.3, January 2023

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

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

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

on-premises, all major clouds - Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform and containers

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Java, C++

Server operating systems

Any that supports .NET

Linux

Linux
OS X

for development

Android
Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Yes, but also semi-structure/unstructured data storage, and complex hierarchical data (like Parquet) stored and/or queried.

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

No Indexes Required. Different internal optimization strategy, but same functionality included.

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Full 1999 standard plus machine learning, time series and geospatial. Over 650 functions.

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net

ADO.NET
JDBC
Kafka Connector
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spark Connector
vSQL

character-based, interactive, front-end utility

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net

C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, PostgreSQL PL/pgSQL, with minor differences

Java

Triggers

Callbacks are triggered when data changes

yes, called Custom Alerts

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

horizontal partitioning, hierarchical partitioning

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication

One, or more copies of data replicated across nodes, or object-store used for repository.

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Bi-directional Spark integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Based on Windows Authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard; supports Kerberos, LDAP, Ident and hash

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Key customers

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Licensing and pricing models

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