DBMS > mSQL vs. PouchDB vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. STSdb

System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. PouchDB vs. RocksDB vs. SAP SQL Anywhere vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

RDBMS database and synchronization technologies for server, desktop, remote office, and mobile environments

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

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Trend Chart

Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	2.28
Rank	#115	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	4.25
Rank	#79	Overall
	#43	Relational DBMS

Score	0.04
Rank	#360	Overall
	#52	Key-value stores

Website

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

pouchdb.com

rocksdb.org

www.sap.com/products/technology-platform/sql-anywhere.html

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

help.sap.com/docs/SAP_SQL_Anywhere

Developer

Hughes Technologies

Apache Software Foundation

Facebook, Inc.

SAP

formerly Sybase

STS Soft SC

Initial release

1994

2012

2013

1992

2011

Current release

4.4, October 2021

7.1.1, June 2019

9.2.1, May 2024

17, July 2015

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

BSD

commercial

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

JavaScript

C++

Server operating systems

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

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Linux

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

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

Secondary indexes

yes

via views

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

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

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

C++ API
Java API

ADO.NET
HTTP API
JDBC
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

JavaScript

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

C
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

View functions in JavaScript

yes, in C/C++, Java, .Net or Perl

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

horizontal partitioning

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

yes

Source-replica replication

Database mirroring

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

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

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