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System Properties Comparison MySQL vs. SpatiaLite vs. Tigris vs. Valentina Server

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Name

Description

Widely used open source RDBMS

Spatial extension of SQLite

A horizontally scalable, ACID transactional, document database available both as a fully managed cloud service and for deployment on self-managed infrastructure

Object-relational database and reports server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Key-value store
Search engine
Time Series DBMS

Relational 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	1.56
Rank	#142	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#359	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#52	Key-value stores
	#23	Search engines
	#37	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#313	Overall
	#140	Relational DBMS

Website

www.mysql.com

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

www.tigrisdata.com

www.valentina-db.net

Technical documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

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

www.tigrisdata.com/docs

valentina-db.com/docs/dokuwiki/v5/doku.php

Developer

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

Alessandro Furieri

Tigris Data, Inc.

Paradigma Software

Initial release

1995

2008

2022

1999

Current release

9.0.0, July 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

5.7.5

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

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

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

server-less

Linux
macOS
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

CLI Client
gRPC
RESTful HTTP API

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)

.Net
C
C#
C++
Objective-C
PHP
Ruby
Visual Basic
Visual Basic.NET

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

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

yes

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

yes, using FoundationDB

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 for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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