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DBMS > mSQL vs. OpenSearch vs. SpaceTime vs. YugabyteDB

System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. OpenSearch vs. SpaceTime vs. YugabyteDB

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NamemSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonOpenSearch  Xexclude from comparisonSpaceTime  Xexclude from comparisonYugabyteDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache LuceneSpaceTime is a spatio-temporal DBMS with a focus on performance.High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineSpatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsVector DBMSRelational DBMSDocument store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score16.03
Rank#37  Overall
#4  Search engines
Score0.03
Rank#392  Overall
#8  Spatial DBMS
Score2.63
Rank#109  Overall
#53  Relational DBMS
Websitehughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlgithub.com/­opensearch-project
opensearch.org
www.mireo.com/­spacetimewww.yugabyte.com
Technical documentationopensearch.org/­docs/­latestdocs.yugabyte.com
github.com/­yugabyte/­yugabyte-db
DeveloperHughes TechnologiesAmazon Web ServicesMireoYugabyte Inc.
Initial release1994202120202017
Current release4.4, October 20212.5.0, January 20232.19, September 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCJavaC++C and C++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
All OS with a Java VMLinuxLinux
OS X
Data schemeyesschema-free infoFlexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistentyesdepending on used data model
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyes infoAll search fields are automatically indexednoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query languageA subset of ANSI SQL is implementedyes, PostgreSQL compatible
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful HTTP APIJDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby infoElasticsearch client
C#
C++
Python
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesnoyes infosql, plpgsql, C
Triggersnoyes infoby using the 'percolation' featurenoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingFixed-grid hypercubesHash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyesReal-time block device replication (DRBD)Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency infoSynchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, allImmediate ConsistencyStrong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoDistributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datanoyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infobased on RocksDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyesyes
More information provided by the system vendor
mSQL infoMini SQLOpenSearchSpaceTimeYugabyteDB
Specific characteristicsOpenSearch is a highly scalable and extensible open-source software suite for search,...
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YugabyteDB is an open source distributed SQL database for cloud native transactional...
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Competitive advantagesDistributed as fully open source under Apache License, Version 2.0 (ALv2), OpenSearch...
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PostgreSQL compatible: Get instantly productive with a PostgreSQL compatible RDBMS....
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Typical application scenariosThe OpenSearch platform is used across a broad range of search , analytics, and observability...
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Systems of record and engagement for cloud native applications that require resilience,...
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Market metrics2 Million+ lifetime clusters deployed, 6.5K+ GitHub stars, 7K YugabyteDB Community...
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Licensing and pricing modelsThe OpenSearch Project offers open source software licensed under Apache License...
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Apache 2.0 license for the database
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