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DBMS > mSQL vs. PouchDB vs. RRDtool vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. PouchDB vs. RRDtool vs. Sphinx vs. STSdb

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NamemSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSTSdb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.Open source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesKey-Value Store with special method for indexing infooptimized for high performance using a special indexing method
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeTime Series DBMSSearch engineKey-value store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.27
Rank#169  Overall
#76  Relational DBMS
Score2.34
Rank#112  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.10
Rank#357  Overall
#51  Key-value stores
Websitehughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlpouchdb.comoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtoolsphinxsearch.comgithub.com/­STSSoft/­STSdb4
Technical documentationpouchdb.com/­guidesoss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­docsphinxsearch.com/­docs
DeveloperHughes TechnologiesApache Software FoundationTobias OetikerSphinx Technologies Inc.STS Soft SC
Initial release19942012199920012011
Current release4.4, October 20217.1.1, June 20191.8.0, 20223.5.1, February 20234.0.8, September 2015
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen SourceOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSSOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoGPLv2, commercial license available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptC infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# availableC++C#
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)HP-UX
Linux
FreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoNumeric data onlynoyes infoprimitive types and user defined types (classes)
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.nonono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsnoyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnonoSQL-like query language (SphinxQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
in-process shared library
Pipes
Proprietary protocol.NET Client API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
JavaScriptC infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
C++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptnonono
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungenoneSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportednone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
nonenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnonono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonononono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datanoyes infoby using the rrdcached daemonyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyes 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.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnonononono

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