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System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. Postgres-XL vs. Quasardb vs. Sphinx vs. Tibero

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NamemSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonPostgres-XL  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonTibero  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSBased on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster featuresDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesA secure RDBMS, designed for easy portability from Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMS
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
Score0.49
Rank#256  Overall
#117  Relational DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score5.98
Rank#56  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score1.78
Rank#140  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Websitehughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlwww.postgres-xl.orgquasar.aisphinxsearch.comus.tmaxsoft.com/­products/­tibero
Technical documentationwww.postgres-xl.org/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­mastersphinxsearch.com/­docstechnet.tmaxsoft.com/­upload/­download/­online/­tibero/­pver-20150504-000002/­index.html
DeveloperHughes TechnologiesquasardbSphinx Technologies Inc.TmaxSoft
Initial release19942014 infosince 2012, originally named StormDB200920012003
Current release4.4, October 202110 R1, October 20183.14.1, January 20243.5.1, February 20236, April 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen Source infoMozilla public licensecommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCCC++C++C and Assembler
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Linux
macOS
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyes infointeger and binarynoyes
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.noyes infoXML type, but no XML query functionalitynoyes
Secondary indexesyesyesyes infowith tagsyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersyes infodistributed, parallel query executionSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects
HTTP APIProprietary protocolJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Tibero CLI
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C
C#
C++
Cobol
Java
Objective-C
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Visual Basic
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnouser defined functionsnonoPersistent Stored Procedure (PSM)
Triggersnoyesnonoyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioningSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedhorizontal partitioning infoby range, hash, list or composite
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACID infoMVCCACIDnoACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datanoyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTransient modeno infoplanned for next version
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standard (SQL 92, SQL 99)

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