DBMS > MySQL vs. openGemini vs. Prometheus vs. Quasardb vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

System Properties Comparison MySQL vs. openGemini vs. Prometheus vs. Quasardb vs. SAP Advantage Database Server

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Name

SAP Advantage Database Server seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

Widely used open source RDBMS

An open source distributed Time Series DBMS with high concurrency, high performance, and high scalability

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Low-cost RDBMS with access to ISAM and FoxPro data structures

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.01
Rank	#375	Overall
	#39	Time Series DBMS

Score	8.42
Rank	#47	Overall
	#2	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.mysql.com

www.opengemini.org
github.com/openGemini

prometheus.io

quasar.ai

www.sap.com/products/advantage-database-server.html

Technical documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

docs.opengemini.org/guide

prometheus.io/docs

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Huawei and openGemini community

quasardb

Sybase, SAP

Initial release

1995

2022

2015

2009

1993

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

1.1, July 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Integer, Float, Boolean, String

Numeric data only

yes

integer and binary

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

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with proprietary extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

.NET Client API
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

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

C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

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

Delphi
Perl
PHP

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

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

yes

by Federation

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

Multi-source replication

CONFLICT Trigger to resolve replication conflicts
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

Transient mode

caching of (temporary) tables can be configured

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

Administrators and common users accounts

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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