DBMS > mSQL vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. Oracle Rdb vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Postgres-XL vs. SwayDB

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Name

Description

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

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

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	1.08
Rank	#184	Overall
	#85	Relational DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

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

Website

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

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

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

www.postgres-xl.org

swaydb.simer.au

Technical documentation

www.oracle.com/database/technologies/related/rdb-doc.html

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

Developer

Hughes Technologies

Oracle, originally developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Percona

Simer Plaha

Initial release

1994

1984

2015

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2018

Current release

4.4, October 2021

7.4.1.1, 2021

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Scala

Server operating systems

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

HP Open VMS

Linux

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

schema-free

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

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

proprietary protocol using JSON

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

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

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

Java
Kotlin
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

JavaScript

user defined functions

Triggers

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

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes, on a single node

ACID

MVCC

Atomic execution of operations

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

via In-Memory Engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users and roles

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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