DBMS > mSQL vs. Postgres-XL vs. SwayDB vs. Transbase vs. Transwarp Hippo

System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. Postgres-XL vs. SwayDB vs. Transbase vs. Transwarp Hippo

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Name

Description

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

An embeddable, non-blocking, type-safe key-value store for single or multiple disks and in-memory storage

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Cloud-native distributed Vector DBMS that supports storage, retrieval, and management of massive vector-based datasets

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.49
Rank	#256	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#382	Overall
	#59	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#341	Overall
	#150	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#13	Vector DBMS

Website

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.postgres-xl.org

swaydb.simer.au

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

www.transwarp.cn/en/subproduct/hippo

Technical documentation

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

Hughes Technologies

Simer Plaha

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

1994

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2018

1987

2023

Current release

4.4, October 2021

10 R1, October 2018

Transbase 8.3, 2022

1.0, May 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

GNU Affero GPL V3.0

commercial

free development license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Scala

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
macOS

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Vector, Numeric and String

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

Java
Kotlin
Scala

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

C++
Java
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

MVCC

Atomic execution of operations

yes

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based access control and fine grained access rights

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