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System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. Oracle Coherence vs. Realm vs. TimesTen

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Name

Description

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Oracles in-memory data grid solution

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

An in-memory SQL relational database that delivers microsecond response and high throughput for OLTP applications. TimesTen can be deployed as a standalone database or as a cache to a backend Oracle database.

Primary database model

DB-Engines Ranking measures the popularity of database management systems
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Score	1.26
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	1.90
Rank	#127	Overall
	#21	Key-value stores

Score	7.18
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Score	1.26
Rank	#164	Overall
	#75	Relational DBMS

Website

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.oracle.com/java/coherence

realm.io

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/timesten.html

Technical documentation

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

realm.io/docs

docs.oracle.com/en/database/other-databases/timesten/index.html

Developer

Hughes Technologies

Oracle

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Oracle

originally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005

Initial release

1994

2007

2014

1998

Current release

4.4, October 2021

14.1, August 2023

Release 22.1

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Open Source

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

Server operating systems

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

All OS with a Java VM

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

IBM AIX Power PC 64-bit
Linux arm64
Linux x86-64
Solaris SPARC 64
Solaris SPARC/x86
Solaris x86-64

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JCache
JPA
RESTful HTTP API

ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Pro*C/C++ programming interfaces
SQL and PL/SQL via JDBC

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net
C++
Java

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

C
C++
Java
Node.js
PL/SQL
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

PL/SQL

Triggers

yes

Live Events

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, with selectable consistency level

none

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

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

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

configurable

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

optionally

yes

by means of logfiles and checkpoints

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

In-Memory realm

yes

User concepts

Access control

authentification to access the cache via certificates or http basic authentication

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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