DBMS > mSQL vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Postgres-XL vs. SwayDB vs. WakandaDB

System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Postgres-XL vs. SwayDB vs. WakandaDB

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Name

Description

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

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

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

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	1.92
Rank	#130	Overall
	#22	Key-value stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.03
Rank	#364	Overall
	#17	Object oriented DBMS

Website

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

www.postgres-xl.org

swaydb.simer.au

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/middleware/standalone/coherence

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

Hughes Technologies

Oracle

Simer Plaha

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

1994

2007

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2018

2012

Current release

4.4, October 2021

14.1, August 2023

10 R1, October 2018

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Scala

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM

Linux
macOS

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

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

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net
C++
Java

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

Java
Kotlin
Scala

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

configurable

ACID

MVCC

Atomic execution of operations

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

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

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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