DBMS > MySQL vs. SiteWhere vs. SpatiaLite vs. SurrealDB

System Properties Comparison MySQL vs. SiteWhere vs. SpatiaLite vs. SurrealDB

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Name

Description

Widely used open source RDBMS

M2M integration platform for persisting/querying time series data

Spatial extension of SQLite

A fully ACID transactional, developer-friendly, multi-model DBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Time Series DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#356	Overall
	#35	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.86
Rank	#203	Overall
	#34	Document stores
	#18	Graph DBMS

Website

www.mysql.com

github.com/sitewhere/sitewhere

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

surrealdb.com

Technical documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

sitewhere1.sitewhere.io/index.html

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

surrealdb.com/docs

Developer

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

SiteWhere

Alessandro Furieri

SurrealDB Ltd

Initial release

1995

2010

2008

2022

Current release

8.4.0, April 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

v1.5.0, May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Common Public Attribution License Version 1.0

Open Source

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

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++

Rust

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Linux
macOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

predefined scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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 query language

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP REST

GraphQL
RESTful HTTP API
WebSocket

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

Deno
Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Rust

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

based on HBase

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

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

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

yes, based on authentication and database rules

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