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System Properties Comparison MongoDB vs. mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. SpatiaLite vs. XTDB

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NameMongoDB  Xexclude from comparisonmSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpatiaLite  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionOne of the most popular document stores available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructuremSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseSpatial extension of SQLiteA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Spatial DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsSpatial DBMS
Search engine infointegrated Lucene index, currently in MongoDB Atlas only.
Time Series DBMS infoTime Series Collections introduced in Release 5.0
Vector DBMS infocurrently available in the MongoDB Atlas cloud service only
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score421.65
Rank#5  Overall
#1  Document stores
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.60
Rank#149  Overall
#3  Spatial DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#343  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.mongodb.comhughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlorigodb.comwww.gaia-gis.it/­fossil/­libspatialite/­indexgithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationwww.mongodb.com/­docs/­manualorigodb.com/­docswww.gaia-gis.it/­gaia-sins/­spatialite_topics.htmlwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperMongoDB, IncHughes TechnologiesRobert Friberg et alAlessandro FurieriJuxt Ltd.
Initial release200919942009 infounder the name LiveDB20082019
Current release6.0.7, June 20234.4, October 20215.0.0, August 20201.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMongoDB Inc.'s Server Side Public License v1. Prior versions were published under GNU AGPL v3.0. Commercial licenses are also available.commercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen SourceOpen Source infoMPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceno infoMongoDB available as DBaaS (MongoDB Atlas)nononono
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Implementation languageC++CC#C++Clojure
Server operating systemsLinux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Windows
server-lessAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeschema-free infoAlthough schema-free, documents of the same collection often follow the same structure. Optionally impose all or part of a schema by defining a JSON schema.yesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, decimal, boolean, date, object_id, geospatialyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nono infocan be achieved using .NETnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLRead-only SQL queries via the MongoDB Atlas SQL InterfaceA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnoyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsGraphQL
HTTP REST
Prisma
proprietary protocol using JSON
JDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesActionscript infounofficial driver
C
C#
C++
Clojure infounofficial driver
ColdFusion infounofficial driver
D infounofficial driver
Dart infounofficial driver
Delphi infounofficial driver
Erlang
Go
Groovy infounofficial driver
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Lisp infounofficial driver
Lua infounofficial driver
MatLab infounofficial driver
Perl
PHP
PowerShell infounofficial driver
Prolog infounofficial driver
Python
R infounofficial driver
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Smalltalk infounofficial driver
Swift
C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.NetClojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresJavaScriptnoyesnono
Triggersyes infoin MongoDB Atlas onlynoyes infoDomain Eventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding infoPartitioned by hashed, ranged, or zoned sharding keys. Live resharding allows users to change their shard keys as an online operation with zero downtime.nonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizednonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesMulti-Source deployments with MongoDB Atlas Global Clusters
Source-replica replication
noneSource-replica replicationnoneyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsyesnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infocan be individually decided for each read operation
Immediate Consistency infodefault behaviour
none
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not used, however similar functionality with DBRef possiblenodepending on modelyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataMulti-document ACID Transactions with snapshot isolationnoACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesnoyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyes infooptional, enabled by defaultyesyes infoWrite ahead logyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoIn-memory storage engine introduced with MongoDB version 3.2noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users and rolesnoRole based authorizationno
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MongoDBmSQL infoMini SQLOrigoDBSpatiaLiteXTDB infoformerly named Crux
Specific characteristicsMongoDB provides an integrated suite of cloud database and data services to accelerate...
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Competitive advantagesBuilt around the flexible document data model and unified API, MongoDB is a developer...
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Typical application scenariosAI-enriched intelligent apps (Continental, Telefonica, Iron Mountain) Internet of...
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Key customersADP, Adobe, Amadeus, AstraZeneca, Auto Trader, Barclays, BBVA, Bosch, Cisco, CERN,...
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Market metricsHundreds of millions downloads, over 150,000+ Atlas clusters provisioned every month...
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Licensing and pricing modelsMongoDB database server: Server-Side Public License (SSPL) . Commercial licenses...
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