SingleStore Helios vs YDB
SingleStore Helios
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| Figure | SingleStore Helios | YDB |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $0.99/mo | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 6 | 4 |
| Spec score · Distributed SQL Databases | 8.9 (#5) | 7.3 (#17) |
| Compliance | SingleStore states that it holds ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type 2 certifications and maintains a privacy-compliance framework. | YDB states that its security features help meet requirements including PCI-DSS, SOC 2, and ISO 27001. |
| Integrations | Listed integrations include AWS Glue, Apache Beam, Apache Flink, Apache Spark, Azure Data Factory, Azure Event Hubs, Confluent Kafka, Fivetran, Informatica, Qlik, Tableau Prep, dbt, Datadog, New Relic and Terraform. | The integrations documentation lists DBeaver, DataGrip, Grafana, Apache Airflow, Apache Spark, Kafka API, dbt, SQLAlchemy, and LangChain among supported integrations. |
| Product | SingleStore Helios is a cloud database-as-a-service available on leading public clouds. | YDB is a distributed SQL database for OLTP, OLAP, and streaming workloads. |
| Security | SingleStore describes security across application security, cloud security, corporate IT security, and governance, risk, and compliance. | YDB supports internal users and external users from directory services such as LDAP and IAM, along with user and group access rights. |
| Support | Paid Helios subscriptions include Standard support, with Silver and Platinum tiers offering faster response targets and expanded coverage. | Commercial support offers a Basic 8×5 ticket service and an Advanced 24×7 service through tickets, chat, and videoconferencing. |
Plans
SingleStore Helios
- SharedFree
- Standard$0.99 a month
- Enterprise$1.49 a month
- StandardPriced on request
- EnterprisePriced on request
- BYOC StandardPriced on request
YDB
- Managed YDB ServerlessFree
- Open-SourceFree
- EnterprisePriced on request
- Managed YDB DedicatedPriced on request
In their own words
SingleStore Helios
SingleStore Helios is a cloud database service available on AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. It handles transactional and analytical workloads in one database, with storage and compute scaled independently. Its data capabilities include relational records, JSON/BSON documents, vector and full-text search, time-series, geospatial, and key-value data. SingleStore Pipelines can ingest from sources such as Kafka, Amazon S3, and HDFS. For AI workloads, the service includes Jupyter notebooks, data integration services, and a compute service. Listed integrations include Datadog, Terraform, Apache Spark, AWS Glue, Azure Data Factory, dbt, and Fivetran. Helios is available through web and API platforms. The free Shared plan provides one workspace for evaluation, development, and non-production testing, with self-support. Standard is $0.99 a month for managed production workloads, with read replicas, database branching, 30-day monitoring, and support. Enterprise is $1.49 a month and adds online point-in-time recovery, Smart Disaster Recovery, audit logging, and customer-managed encryption keys. The listed availability commitments vary by configuration, reaching 99.99% across two availability zones on paid plans.
YDB
YDB is an open-source distributed SQL database for OLTP, OLAP and streaming workloads. It provides global ACID transactions, strong consistency, automatic sharding and rebalancing, and independent scaling for compute and storage. Columnar tables and a distributed vectorized query engine support analytics. YDB Topics supports Kafka API 3.4.0, exactly-once delivery and automatic partitioning. A native vector index handles approximate nearest-neighbor queries for semantic search, recommendations and retrieval-augmented generation pipelines. Deployments can run on premises, on virtual machines with Ansible, or in cloud environments with Kubernetes. Security includes internal and directory-based external users, plus user and group rights. Integrations listed include DBeaver, DataGrip, Grafana, Airflow, Spark, Kafka API, dbt, SQLAlchemy and LangChain. Open-Source costs nothing under Apache 2.0. Managed Serverless is also free, usage-billed with monthly free allowances.