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System Properties Comparison Dolt vs. MySQL vs. OrientDB vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

A MySQL compatible DBMS with Git-like versioning of data and schema

Widely used open source RDBMS

Multi-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.02
Rank	#191	Overall
	#89	Relational DBMS

Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	3.25
Rank	#89	Overall
	#16	Document stores
	#6	Graph DBMS
	#13	Key-value stores

Score	1.63
Rank	#146	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

github.com/dolthub/dolt
www.dolthub.com

www.mysql.com

orientdb.org

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

docs.dolthub.com

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.orientdb.com/docs/last/index.html

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

DoltHub Inc

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

OrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2018

1995

2010

2008

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

3.2.29, March 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache version 2

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
macOS
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)

server-less

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Schema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language, no joins

yes

APIs and other access methods

CLI Client
HTTP REST

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

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#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

currently in alpha release

yes

proprietary syntax

Java, Javascript

Triggers

yes

Hooks

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

A database can be cloned to multiple locations and be used there in isolation. Data/schema changes can be pushed/pulled explicitly between locations.

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

could be achieved with distributed queries

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

yes

relationship in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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

Only one user is configurable, and must be specified in the config file at startup

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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