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System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. ObjectBox vs. OrigoDB vs. Prometheus vs. TimescaleDB

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NamemSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSExtremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and MobileA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Time Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.67
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score1.22
Rank#172  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
Score0.03
Rank#378  Overall
#51  Document stores
#18  Object oriented DBMS
Score7.92
Rank#51  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Score4.87
Rank#74  Overall
#4  Time Series DBMS
Websitehughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlobjectbox.ioorigodb.comprometheus.iowww.timescale.com
Technical documentationdocs.objectbox.ioorigodb.com/­docsprometheus.io/­docsdocs.timescale.com
DeveloperHughes TechnologiesObjectBox LimitedRobert Friberg et alTimescale
Initial release199420172009 infounder the name LiveDB20152017
Current release4.4, October 20212.13.0, November 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoApache License 2.0Open SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC and C++C#GoC
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsNumeric data onlynumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data types
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 infocan be achieved using .NETno infoImport of XML data possibleyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnononoyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntax
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python infoplanned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift
.Net.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesnouser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shell
Triggersnonoyes infoDomain Eventsnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonenonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedShardingyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributes
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneonline/offline synchronization between client and serverSource-replica replicationyes infoby FederationSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesdepending on modelnoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datanoyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyesnono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesRole based authorizationnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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mSQL infoMini SQLObjectBoxOrigoDBPrometheusTimescaleDB
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