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System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. NuoDB vs. PostGIS

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Name	mSQL Mini SQL  Xexclude from comparison	NuoDB  Xexclude from comparison	PostGIS  Xexclude from comparison
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
Primary database model	Relational DBMS	Relational DBMS	Spatial DBMS
Secondary database models			Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems Trend Chart	Score 1.68 Rank #134   Overall #66   Relational DBMS	Score 0.96 Rank #179   Overall #86   Relational DBMS	Score 30.88 Rank #28   Overall #1   Spatial DBMS
Website	hughestech.com.au/­products/­msql	nuodb.com	postgis.net
Technical documentation		doc.nuodb.com	postgis.net/­documentation
Developer	Hughes Technologies	NuoDB, Inc.
Initial release	1994	2013	2005
Current release	4.4, October 2021		3.2.1, February 2022
License Commercial or Open Source	commercial free licenses can be provided	commercial limited edition free	Open Source GPL v2.0
Cloud-based only Only available as a cloud service	no	no	no
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Implementation language	C	C++	C
Server operating systems	AIX HP-UX Linux OS X Solaris SPARC/x86 Windows	hosted Amazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer Linux OS X Windows
Data scheme	yes	yes	yes
Typing predefined data types such as float or date	yes	yes	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.	no	no	yes
Secondary indexes	yes	yes	yes
SQL Support of SQL	A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers	yes	yes
APIs and other access methods	JDBC ODBC	ADO.NET JDBC ODBC
Supported programming languages	C C++ Delphi Java Perl PHP Tcl	.Net C C++ Go Java JavaScript JavaScript (Node.js) PHP Python Ruby
Server-side scripts Stored procedures	no	Java, SQL	user defined functions
Triggers	no	yes	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	yes based on PostgreSQL
Replication methods Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes	none	yes Managed transparently by NuoDB	yes based on PostgreSQL
MapReduce Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods	no	no	no
Consistency concepts Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system	none	Immediate Consistency	Immediate Consistency
Foreign keys Referential integrity	no	yes	yes
Transaction concepts Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data	no	ACID tunable commit protocol	ACID
Concurrency Support for concurrent manipulation of data	no	yes MVCC	yes
Durability Support for making data persistent	yes	yes	yes
In-memory capabilities Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.	no	yes Temporary table	no
User concepts Access control	no	Standard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative Users	yes based on PostgreSQL
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