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System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. NuoDB vs. ObjectBox vs. XTDB

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Name

Description

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

NuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactions

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Object oriented DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Time Series DBMS

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Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	0.94
Rank	#197	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.18
Rank	#332	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.3ds.com/nuodb-distributed-sql-database

objectbox.io

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

doc.nuodb.com

docs.objectbox.io

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

Hughes Technologies

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

ObjectBox Limited

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

1994

2013

2017

2019

Current release

4.4, October 2021

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C and C++

Clojure

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

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

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

Proprietary native API

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

data is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/written

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

online/offline synchronization between client and server

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

tunable commit protocol

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

MVCC

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Temporary table

User concepts

Access control

Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users

yes

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