DBMS > MySQL vs. NSDb vs. SpaceTime vs. SQLite

System Properties Comparison MySQL vs. NSDb vs. SpaceTime vs. SQLite

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Name

Description

Widely used open source RDBMS

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

SpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#7	Spatial DBMS

Score	103.35
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.mysql.com

nsdb.io

www.mireo.com/spacetime

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

nsdb.io/Architecture

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Mireo

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

1995

2017

2020

2000

Current release

9.0.0, July 2024

3.46.1 (13 August 2024), August 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java, Scala

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux

server-less

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

RESTful HTTP API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

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

Java
Scala

C#
C++
Python

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

Fixed-grid hypercubes

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Real-time block device replication (DRBD)

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

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

via file-system locks

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes

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