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DBMS > mSQL vs. PostGIS vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TDengine

System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. PostGIS vs. Postgres-XL vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. TDengine

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NamemSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server Anywhere  Xexclude from comparisonTDengine  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSSpatial extension of PostgreSQLBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresRDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environmentsTime Series DBMS and big data platform
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#254  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score3.95
Rank#80  Overall
#42  Relational DBMS
Score2.68
Rank#106  Overall
#9  Time Series DBMS
Websitehughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlpostgis.netwww.postgres-xl.orgwww.sap.com/­products/­technology-platform/­sql-anywhere.htmlgithub.com/­taosdata/­TDengine
tdengine.com
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationhelp.sap.com/­docs/­SAP_SQL_Anywheredocs.tdengine.com
DeveloperHughes TechnologiesSAP infoformerly SybaseTDEngine, previously Taos Data
Initial release199420052014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB19922019
Current release4.4, October 20213.4.2, February 202410 R1, October 201817, July 20153.0, August 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licensecommercialOpen Source infoAGPL V3, also commercial editions available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCCCC
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
macOS
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes
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.noyesyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalityyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionyesStandard SQL with extensions for time-series applications
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
RESTful HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Rust
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsuser defined functionsyes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perlno
Triggersnoyesyesyesyes, via alarm monitoring
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLhorizontal partitioningnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication infoDatabase mirroringyes
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoMVCCACID
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.nononoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnoyes infobased on PostgreSQLfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyes
More information provided by the system vendor
mSQL infoMini SQLPostGISPostgres-XLSAP SQL Anywhere infoformerly called Adaptive Server AnywhereTDengine
Specific characteristicsTDengine™ is a next generation data historian purpose-built for Industry 4.0 and...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Performance at any Scale: TDengine is purpose-built for handling massive industrial...
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Typical application scenariosTDengine is designed for Industrial IoT scenarios, including: Manufacturing Connected...
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Market metricsTDengine has garnered over 22,500 stars on GitHub and is used in over 50 countries...
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Licensing and pricing modelsTDengine OSS is an open source, cloud native time series database. It includes built-in...
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