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System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. NuoDB vs. PostGIS vs. Riak TS

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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

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.89
Rank	#198	Overall
	#92	Relational DBMS

Score	22.69
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

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

postgis.net

Technical documentation

doc.nuodb.com

postgis.net/documentation

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

Hughes Technologies

Dassault Systèmes

originally NuoDB, Inc.

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

1994

2013

2005

2015

Current release

4.4, October 2021

3.4.2, February 2024

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

limited edition free

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

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

hosted

Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

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

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

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

yes

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

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

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java, SQL

user defined functions

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Managed transparently by NuoDB

yes

based on PostgreSQL

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

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

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

based on PostgreSQL

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