DBMS > mSQL vs. OpenTenBase vs. Postgres-XL vs. Splice Machine vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. OpenTenBase vs. Postgres-XL vs. Splice Machine vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

Open-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and Spark

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
Trend Chart

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.54
Rank	#250	Overall
	#114	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Website

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

www.postgres-xl.org

splicemachine.com

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

splicemachine.com/how-it-works

Developer

Hughes Technologies

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

Splice Machine

Simer Plaha

Initial release

1994

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2014

2018

Current release

4.4, October 2021

2.5, January 2024

10 R1, October 2018

3.1, March 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

BSD-3

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

AGPL 3.0, commercial license available

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

Server operating systems

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

Linux

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

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

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Java

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

Shared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Yes, via Full Spark Integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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 for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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