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System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. NSDb vs. OpenEdge vs. QuestDB vs. Transwarp ArgoDB

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NamemSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonQuestDB  Xexclude from comparisonTranswarp ArgoDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesApplication development environment with integrated database management systemA high performance open source SQL database for time series dataDistributed Analytical Database to replace Hadoop+MPP hybrid architecture
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSSearch engine
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Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#369  Overall
#40  Time Series DBMS
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Score2.70
Rank#105  Overall
#8  Time Series DBMS
Score0.12
Rank#348  Overall
#151  Relational DBMS
Websitehughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlnsdb.iowww.progress.com/­openedgequestdb.iowww.transwarp.cn/­en/­product/­argodb
Technical documentationnsdb.io/­Architecturedocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latestquestdb.io/­docsdocs.transwarp.cn/­#/­documents-support/­docs?category=ARGODB
DeveloperHughes TechnologiesProgress Software CorporationQuestDB Technology IncTranswarp
Initial release1994201719842014
Current release4.4, October 2021OpenEdge 12.2, March 2020
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJava, ScalaJava (Zero-GC), C++, Rust
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
macOS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyes infoschema-free via InfluxDB Line Protocolyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringyesyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query languageyes infoclose to SQL 92SQL with time-series extensionsyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
InfluxDB Line Protocol (TCP/UDP)
JDBC
PostgreSQL wire protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Java
Scala
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)C infoPostgreSQL driver
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Rust infoover HTTP
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesno
Triggersnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4horizontal partitioning (by timestamps)
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationSource-replica replication with eventual consistency
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACID for single-table writes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datanoyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infothrough memory mapped files
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers and groups
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mSQL infoMini SQLNSDbOpenEdgeQuestDBTranswarp ArgoDB
Specific characteristicsRelational model with native time series support Column-based storage and time partitioned...
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Competitive advantagesHigh ingestion throughput: peak of 4M rows/sec (TSBS Benchmark) Code optimizations...
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Typical application scenariosFinancial tick data Industrial IoT Application Metrics Monitoring
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Key customersBanks & Hedge funds, Yahoo, OKX, Airbus, Aquis Exchange, Net App, Cloudera, Airtel,...
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Licensing and pricing modelsOpen source Apache 2.0 QuestDB Enterprise QuestDB Cloud
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