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DBMS > mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. PostGIS vs. Prometheus vs. Teradata Aster

System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. OrigoDB vs. PostGIS vs. Prometheus vs. Teradata Aster

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NamemSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonOrigoDB  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonTeradata Aster  Xexclude from comparison
Teradata Aster has been integrated into other Teradata systems and therefore will be removed from the DB-Engines ranking.
DescriptionmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSA fully ACID in-memory object graph databaseSpatial extension of PostgreSQLOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemPlatform for big data analytics on multistructured data sources and types
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument store
Object oriented DBMS
Spatial DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMS
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Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#53  Document stores
#20  Object oriented DBMS
Score22.69
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score8.42
Rank#47  Overall
#2  Time Series DBMS
Websitehughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlorigodb.compostgis.netprometheus.io
Technical documentationorigodb.com/­docspostgis.net/­documentationprometheus.io/­docs
DeveloperHughes TechnologiesRobert Friberg et alTeradata
Initial release19942009 infounder the name LiveDB200520152005
Current release4.4, October 20213.4.2, February 2024
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCC#CGo
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesyesFlexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free) infodefined schema within the relational store; partial schema or schema free in the Aster File Store
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesUser defined using .NET types and collectionsyesNumeric data onlyyes
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.nono infocan be achieved using .NETyesno infoImport of XML data possibleyes infoin Aster File Store
Secondary indexesyesyesyesnoyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnoyesnoyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Java
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyesuser defined functionsnoR packages
Triggersnoyes infoDomain Eventsyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning infoclient side managed; servers are not synchronizedyes infobased on PostgreSQLShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replicationyes infobased on PostgreSQLyes infoby Federationyes infoDimension tables are replicated across all nodes in the cluster. The number of replicas for the file store can be configured.
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononoyes infoSQL Map-Reduce Framework
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynodepending on modelyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datanoyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoWrite ahead logyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnonono
User concepts infoAccess controlnoRole based authorizationyes infobased on PostgreSQLnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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