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System Properties Comparison Infobright vs. MySQL vs. SpatiaLite vs. TDengine

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Name

Description

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Widely used open source RDBMS

Spatial extension of SQLite

Time Series DBMS and big data platform

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	0.88
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.56
Rank	#142	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	2.48
Rank	#107	Overall
	#9	Time Series DBMS

Website

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.mysql.com

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

github.com/taosdata/TDengine
tdengine.com

Technical documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

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

docs.tdengine.com

Developer

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Alessandro Furieri

TDEngine, previously Taos Data

Initial release

2005

1995

2008

2019

Current release

9.0.0, July 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

3.0, August 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

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

Open Source

AGPL V3, also commercial editions available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

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

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

JDBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

yes, via alarm monitoring

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

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