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System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. OrientDB vs. OrigoDB vs. PlanetScale vs. Sphinx

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NamemSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)A fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databases
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Document store
Object oriented DBMS
Relational DBMSSearch engine
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score3.19
Rank#93  Overall
#16  Document stores
#7  Graph DBMS
#14  Key-value stores
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score1.59
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Websitehughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlorientdb.orgorigodb.complanetscale.comsphinxsearch.com
Technical documentationwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.htmlorigodb.com/­docsplanetscale.com/­docssphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperHughes TechnologiesOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAPRobert Friberg et alPlanetScaleSphinx Technologies Inc.
Initial release199420102009 infounder the name LiveDB20202001
Current release4.4, October 20213.2.29, March 20243.5.1, February 2023
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoApache version 2Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononoyesno
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Implementation languageCJavaC#GoC++
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)Linux
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")yesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyesno
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.nonono infocan be achieved using .NET
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes infofull-text index on all search fields
SQL infoSupport of SQLA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersSQL-like query language, no joinsnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
.NetAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoJava, Javascriptyesyes infoproprietary syntaxno
TriggersnoHooksyes infoDomain Eventsyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneShardinghorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedShardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supported
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
none
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnono infocould be achieved with distributed queriesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyes inforelationship in graphsdepending on modelyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDACID at shard levelno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datanoyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoWrite ahead logyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurableRole based authorizationUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesno

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