1. YugabyteDB :
YugabyteDB is the open source, cloud native and high-performance distributed SQL database globally-distributed document store. YugabyteDB aims to make applications agile. Yugabyte is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA. YugabyteDB is distributed and developed as an Apache 2.0 open source project .
2. Vertica :
Vertica is a Columnar relational DBMS which is designed to handle modern analytic workloads and enables fast query performance. Its headquarters is in Cambridge, MA, United States. It is an infrastructure-independent through which it supports deployments on multiple cloud platforms (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure), on-premises and natively on Hadoop nodes. Its Analytics Platform Community Edition was made available for free with certain limitations.
Difference between Vertica and YugabyteDB :
S.No. | Vertica | YugabyteDB |
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1 | Developed by Vertica / Micro Focus and initially released on 2005. | Developed by Yugabyte Inc. and initially released on 2017 and current release on March 2020. |
2 | Current release date- Vertica 10.0 Software, May 2020 and Vertica for SQL on Hadoop 10.0 Software, May 2020. | Current release date- March 2020. |
3 | Server operating systems of Vertica is Linux. | Server operating systems of YugabyteDB is Linux, OS X. |
4 | Its primary database model is Relational DBMS. | Its primary database model is Relational DBMS. |
5 | Secondary database models of Vertica is Document store. | Secondary database models of YugabyteDB is Document store and Wide column store. |
6 | Vertica supports C++, Java, Perl, Python, R, programming languages. | YugabyteDB supports C, C#, C++, Go, Java, JavaScript (Node.js), Python, Ruby programming languages. |
7 | APIs and other access methods of Vertica is ADO.NET, JDBC, Kafka, ODBC, Proprietary protocol, RESTful HTTP, API. | YugabyteDB supports YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language. |
8 | It has Data Schema. | Data scheme of YugabyteDB is depending on used data model. |
9 | It does not has any Implementation language. | Implementation language of YugabyteDB is C and C++. |
10 | Transaction concepts is ACID (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation, and Durability). | Its Transaction concepts is Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture. |
11 | Replication methods of Vertica is Master-slave replication. | Replication methods of YugabyteDB is based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability. |
12 | It has Immediate Consistency concept. | It has strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads. |