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System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. OpenSearch vs. SpatiaLite vs. YDB

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Name

Description

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Spatial extension of SQLite

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Vector DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	1.60
Rank	#149	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.35
Rank	#278	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#127	Relational DBMS

Website

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

opensearch.org/docs/latest

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Hughes Technologies

Amazon Web Services

Alessandro Furieri

Yandex

Initial release

1994

2021

2008

2019

Current release

4.4, October 2021

2.5.0, January 2023

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM

server-less

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

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

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

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 defined for Yandex Cloud users

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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