DBMS > Galaxybase vs. mSQL vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

System Properties Comparison Galaxybase vs. mSQL vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP SQL Anywhere

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Name

Description

Scalable, ACID-compliant native distributed parallel graph platform

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Graph DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#127	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	3.50
Rank	#81	Overall
	#44	Relational DBMS

Website

galaxybase.com

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.postgres-xl.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

Technical documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Chuanglin(Createlink) Technology Co., Ltd 浙江创邻科技有限公司

Hughes Technologies

Oracle

SAP

formerly Sybase

Initial release

2017

1994

2007

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

1992

Current release

Nov 20, November 2021

4.4, October 2021

14.1, August 2023

10 R1, October 2018

17, July 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and Java

Java

Server operating systems

Linux

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

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

Strong typed schema

yes

schema-free

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

XML type, but no XML query functionality

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

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

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

Browser interface
console (shell)
Graph API (Gremlin)
OpenCypher
Proprietary native API

JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net
C++
Java

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined procedures and functions

user defined functions

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

configurable

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

Role-based access control

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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