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System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. PieCloudDB vs. TimescaleDB vs. VelocityDB

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NamemSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonPieCloudDB  Xexclude from comparisonTimescaleDB  Xexclude from comparisonVelocityDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesA cloud-native analytic database platform with new technologoy for elastic MPPA time series DBMS optimized for fast ingest and complex queries, based on PostgreSQLA .NET Object Database that can be embedded/distributed and extended to a graph data model (VelocityGraph)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMS
Object oriented DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.26
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Score3.07
Rank#86  Overall
#15  Document stores
#11  Key-value stores
#47  Relational DBMS
Score0.37
Rank#271  Overall
#127  Relational DBMS
Score4.06
Rank#73  Overall
#5  Time Series DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#385  Overall
#40  Graph DBMS
#21  Object oriented DBMS
Websitehughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlwww.openpie.comwww.timescale.comvelocitydb.com
Technical documentationdocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmldocs.timescale.comvelocitydb.com/­UserGuide
DeveloperHughes TechnologiesOracleOpenPieTimescaleVelocityDB Inc
Initial release1994201120172011
Current release4.4, October 202124.1, May 20242.1, January 20232.15.0, May 20247.x
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)commercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageCJavaCC#
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
hostedLinux
OS X
Windows
Any that supports .NET
Data schemeyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesoptionalyesnumerics, strings, booleans, arrays, JSON blobs, geospatial dimensions, currencies, binary data, other complex data typesyes
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyes infofull PostgreSQL SQL syntaxno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP APICLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
.Net
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Java
PL/SQL
Python
R
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java infoJDBC
JavaScript
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonouser defined functionsuser defined functions, PL/pgSQL, PL/Tcl, PL/Perl, PL/Python, PL/Java, PL/PHP, PL/R, PL/Ruby, PL/Scheme, PL/Unix shellno
TriggersnononoyesCallbacks are triggered when data changes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardingyesyes, across time and space (hash partitioning) attributesSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureyesSource-replica replication with hot standby and reads on replicas info
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datanoyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infooff heap cachenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and rolesUser Roles and pluggable authentication with full SQL Standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardBased on Windows Authentication
More information provided by the system vendor
mSQL infoMini SQLOracle NoSQLPieCloudDBTimescaleDBVelocityDB
Specific characteristicsPieCloudDB, OpenPie's flagship product, is a cutting-edge cloud-native data warehouse....
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Competitive advantagesExtreme Elastic: PieCloudDB utilizes a cutting-edge eMPP cloud-native architecture...
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Typical application scenariosPieCloudDB is ideal for Data mining applications that require extreme scalability...
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Key customersSail-Cloud China Shipbuilding Group Haizhou System Soochow Securities ​etc.,
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Licensing and pricing modelsPieCloudDB Community Edition: Community License, Free Download, Self-Hosted Deployment;...
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