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DBMS > mSQL vs. Netezza vs. OrientDB vs. Sphinx vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. Netezza vs. OrientDB vs. Sphinx vs. TDengine

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NamemSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Search engineTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score8.59
Rank#45  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitehughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzaorientdb.orgsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlsphinxsearch.com/­docsdocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperHughes TechnologiesIBMOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPSphinx Technologies Inc.TDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release19942000201020012019
Current release4.4, October 20213.2.29, March 20243.5.1, February 20233.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree licenses can be providedcommercialOpen Source infoApache version 2Open Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaC++C
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux infoincluded in applianceAll OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersyesSQL-like query language, no joinsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)Standard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Proprietary protocolJDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesJava, Javascriptnono
TriggersnonoHooksnoyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replicationnoneyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesno infocould be achieved with distributed queriesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes inforelationship in graphsnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datanoyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.no
User concepts infoAccess controlnoUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurablenoyes
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mSQL infoMini SQLNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBMOrientDBSphinxTDengine
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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