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DBMS > mSQL vs. OpenTSDB vs. OrigoDB vs. PostGIS vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. OpenTSDB vs. OrigoDB vs. PostGIS vs. Teradata Aster

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NamemSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseSpatial extension of PostgreSQLPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Spatial DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Websitehughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlopentsdb.netorigodb.compostgis.net
Technical documentationopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlorigodb.com/­docspostgis.net/­documentation
DeveloperHughes Technologiescurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsRobert Friberg et alTeradata
Initial release199420112009 infounder the name LiveDB20052005
Current release4.4, October 20213.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoLGPLOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaC#C
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyesyes
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 .NETyesyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnonoyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP API
Telnet API
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.NetC
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyesuser defined functionsR packages
Triggersnonoyes infoDomain Eventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infobased on HBasehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonodepending on modelyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDACIDACID
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 controlnonoRole based authorizationyes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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