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DBMS > mSQL vs. PostGIS vs. Postgres-XL vs. SwayDB

System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. PostGIS vs. Postgres-XL vs. SwayDB

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NamemSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonSwayDB  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 featuresAn embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store
Secondary database modelsRelational DBMSDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.67
Rank#151  Overall
#70  Relational DBMS
Score23.90
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.52
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.04
Rank#373  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Websitehughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlpostgis.netwww.postgres-xl.orgswaydb.simer.au
Technical documentationpostgis.net/­documentationwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentation
DeveloperHughes TechnologiesSimer Plaha
Initial release199420052014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB2018
Current release4.4, October 20213.4.2, February 202410 R1, October 2018
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoMozilla public licenseOpen Source infoGNU Affero GPL V3.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCCCScala
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesno
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 functionalityno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersyesyes infodistributed, parallel query executionno
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
Java
Kotlin
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsuser defined functionsno
Triggersnoyesyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLhorizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneyes infobased on PostgreSQLnone
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 integritynoyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACID infoMVCCAtomic execution of operations
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datanoyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes
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-standardno

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