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DBMS > mSQL vs. OpenQM vs. PlanetScale vs. Spark SQL vs. TerminusDB

System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. OpenQM vs. PlanetScale vs. Spark SQL vs. TerminusDB

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NamemSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonOpenQM infoalso called QM  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTerminusDB infoformer name was DataChemist  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSQpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMSScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingScalable Graph Database platform making enterprise data available by exploiting inferred entities and relationships
Primary database modelRelational DBMSMultivalue DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
RDF store
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Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score0.34
Rank#284  Overall
#10  Multivalue DBMS
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Score18.04
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.23
Rank#316  Overall
#27  Graph DBMS
Websitehughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.rocketsoftware.com/­products/­rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/­rocket-open-qmplanetscale.comspark.apache.org/­sqlterminusdb.com
Technical documentationplanetscale.com/­docsspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlterminusdb.github.io/­terminusdb/­#
DeveloperHughes TechnologiesRocket Software, originally Martin PhillipsPlanetScaleApache Software FoundationDataChemist Ltd.
Initial release19941993202020142018
Current release4.4, October 20213.4-123.5.0 ( 2.13), September 202311.0.0, January 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoGPLv2, extended commercial license availablecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoGPL V3
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageCGoScalaProlog, Rust
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyes infowith some exceptionsyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.noyesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like DML and DDL statementsSQL-like query language (WOQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
OWL
RESTful HTTP API
WOQL (Web Object Query Language)
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Java
Python
R
Scala
JavaScript
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesyes infoproprietary syntaxnoyes
Triggersnoyesyesnoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyesShardingyes, utilizing Spark CoreGraph Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
noneJournaling Streams
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyes infonot for MyISAM storage enginenoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID at shard levelnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datanoyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoin-memory journaling
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights can be defined down to the item levelUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesnoRole-based access control

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