DBMS > Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. TempoIQ vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison Alibaba Cloud PolarDB vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. TempoIQ vs. TerminusDB

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Name

TempoIQ seems to be decommissioned. It will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

A cloud-native relational database compatible with MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Oracle. Designed for business critical applications.

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Scalable analytics DBMS for sensor data, provided as a service (SaaS)

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Trend Chart

Score	0.59
Rank	#241	Overall
	#110	Relational DBMS

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#53	Document stores
	#20	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.17
Rank	#325	Overall
	#29	Graph DBMS

Website

www.alibabacloud.com/product/polardb

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

origodb.com

tempoiq.com (offline)

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/polardb/product-overview

origodb.com/docs

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Alibaba

Hughes Technologies

Robert Friberg et al

TempoIQ

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

1994

2009

under the name LiveDB

2012

2018

Current release

4.4, October 2021

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

hosted

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

HTTP API

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

Java
Python

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net

C#
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Python
Ruby

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Realtime Alerts

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

Implicit feature of the cloud service

none

Source-replica replication

Journaling Streams

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based authorization

simple authentication-based access control

Role-based access control

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