DBMS > mSQL vs. NSDb vs. OpenTenBase vs. Teradata Aster vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. NSDb vs. OpenTenBase vs. Teradata Aster vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.

Description

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

Platform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#370	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

nsdb.io

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

nsdb.io/Architecture

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Hughes Technologies

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

Teradata

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

1994

2017

2005

2012

Current release

4.4, October 2021

2.5, January 2024

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

BSD-3

commercial

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

defined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

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

in Aster File Store

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Java
Scala

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

R packages

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Dimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

SQL Map-Reduce Framework

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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