DBMS > Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SpatiaLite

System Properties Comparison Microsoft Azure Table Storage vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

A Wide Column Store for rapid development using massive semi-structured datasets

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

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

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Wide column store

Relational DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	4.48
Rank	#75	Overall
	#6	Wide column stores

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

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

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/storage/tables

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

origodb.com

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

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

Technical documentation

origodb.com/docs

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

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

Developer

Microsoft

Hughes Technologies

Robert Friberg et al

SAP

formerly Sybase

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2012

1994

2009

under the name LiveDB

1992

2008

Current release

4.4, October 2021

17, July 2015

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

commercial

Open Source

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

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

hosted

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

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

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.

can be achieved using .NET

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

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

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

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

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes

implicit feature of the cloud service. Replication either local, cross-facility or geo-redundant.

none

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

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

optimistic locking

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

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

Access rights based on private key authentication or shared access signatures

Role based authorization

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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