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System Properties Comparison MySQL vs. OpenQM vs. OpenTSDB vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Spark SQL

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Name

Description

Widely used open source RDBMS

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Spark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processing

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Multivalue DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1061.34
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.34
Rank	#284	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.68
Rank	#142	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.14
Rank	#178	Overall
	#80	Relational DBMS

Score	18.04
Rank	#33	Overall
	#20	Relational DBMS

Website

www.mysql.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

opentsdb.net

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb.html

spark.apache.org/sql

Technical documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

opentsdb.net/docs/build/html/index.html

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

spark.apache.org/docs/latest/sql-programming-guide.html

Developer

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

1995

1993

2011

1984

2014

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

3.4-12

7.4.1.1, 2021

3.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

HP Open VMS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

schema-free

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

numeric data for metrics, strings for tags

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

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

SQL-like DML and DDL statements

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Telnet API

JDBC
ODBC

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

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

Java
Python
R
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

yes

Sharding

based on HBase

yes, utilizing Spark Core

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

yes, on a single node

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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