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System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. OpenQM vs. OrigoDB vs. SQLite vs. TerminusDB

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Name

Description

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Scalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
RDF store

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Score	1.67
Rank	#151	Overall
	#70	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#286	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#378	Overall
	#51	Document stores
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	116.01
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.22
Rank	#323	Overall
	#28	Graph DBMS

Website

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-open-qm

origodb.com

www.sqlite.org

terminusdb.com

Technical documentation

origodb.com/docs

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

terminusdb.github.io/terminusdb/#

Developer

Hughes Technologies

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Robert Friberg et al

Dwayne Richard Hipp

DataChemist Ltd.

Initial release

1994

1993

2009

under the name LiveDB

2000

2018

Current release

4.4, October 2021

3.4-12

3.45.3 (15 April 2024), April 2024

11.0.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

GPL V3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Prolog, Rust

Server operating systems

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

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

yes

dynamic column types

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

User defined using .NET types and collections

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

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

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

SQL-like query language (WOQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

.Net

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

JavaScript
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

Domain Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

yes

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Graph Partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Source-replica replication

none

Journaling Streams

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

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

via file-system locks

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Write ahead log

yes

in-memory journaling

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

Role based authorization

Role-based access control

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