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DBMS > Blueflood vs. mSQL vs. PlanetScale vs. Postgres-XL vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison Blueflood vs. mSQL vs. PlanetScale vs. Postgres-XL vs. SwayDB

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NameBlueflood  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionScalable TimeSeries DBMS based on CassandramSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.06
Rank#353  Overall
#34  Time Series DBMS
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#382  Overall
#59  Key-value stores
Websiteblueflood.iohughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlplanetscale.comwww.postgres-xl.orgswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationgithub.com/­rax-maas/­blueflood/­wikiplanetscale.com/­docswww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperRackspaceHughes TechnologiesPlanetScaleSimer Plaha
Initial release2013199420202014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2018
Current release4.4, October 202110 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercialOpen Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageJavaCGoCScala
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Linux
macOS
Data schemepredefined schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesno
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityno
Secondary indexesnoyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersyes infowith proprietary extensionsyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsHTTP RESTJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoproprietary syntaxuser defined functionsno
Triggersnonoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infobased on CassandranoneShardinghorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesselectable replication factor infobased on CassandranoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
noneEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACID at shard levelACID infoMVCCAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardno

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