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System Properties Comparison MySQL vs. OpenTSDB vs. SAP IQ vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

Widely used open source RDBMS

Scalable Time Series DBMS based on HBase

Columnar RDBMS optimized for Big Data analytics

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

column-oriented

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1029.49
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	1.59
Rank	#140	Overall
	#12	Time Series DBMS

Score	2.56
Rank	#106	Overall
	#52	Relational DBMS

Score	1.56
Rank	#142	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

www.mysql.com

opentsdb.net

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sybase-iq-big-data-management.html

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

Technical documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

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

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_IQ

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

Developer

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

currently maintained by Yahoo and other contributors

SAP, formerly Sybase

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

1995

2011

1994

2008

Current release

9.0.0, July 2024

16.1 SPS04, April 2019

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

LGPL

commercial

Open Source

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

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Telnet API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

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

Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Sharding

based on HBase

shared disk or shared nothing architectures with SAP IQ Multiplexer

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

SAP/Sybase Replication Server

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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