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DBMS > mSQL vs. PouchDB vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase vs. Vitess

System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. PouchDB vs. Spark SQL vs. Transbase vs. Vitess

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NamemSQL infoMini SQL  Xexclude from comparisonPouchDB  Xexclude from comparisonSpark SQL  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparisonVitess  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionmSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMSJavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDBSpark SQL is a component on top of 'Spark Core' for structured data processingA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMSScalable, distributed, cloud-native DBMS, extending MySQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.27
Rank#167  Overall
#77  Relational DBMS
Score2.28
Rank#115  Overall
#21  Document stores
Score18.96
Rank#33  Overall
#20  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Score0.82
Rank#209  Overall
#97  Relational DBMS
Websitehughestech.com.au/­products/­msqlpouchdb.comspark.apache.org/­sqlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.htmlvitess.io
Technical documentationpouchdb.com/­guidesspark.apache.org/­docs/­latest/­sql-programming-guide.htmlwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.htmlvitess.io/­docs
DeveloperHughes TechnologiesApache Software FoundationApache Software FoundationTransaction Software GmbHThe Linux Foundation, PlanetScale
Initial release19942012201419872013
Current release4.4, October 20217.1.1, June 20193.5.0 ( 2.13), September 2023Transbase 8.3, 202215.0.2, December 2022
License infoCommercial or Open Sourcecommercial infofree licenses can be providedOpen SourceOpen Source infoApache 2.0commercial infofree development licenseOpen Source infoApache Version 2.0, commercial licenses available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaScriptScalaC and C++Go
Server operating systemsAIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesyes infovia viewsnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLA subset of ANSI SQL is implemented infono subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggersnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesyes infowith proprietary extensions
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST infoonly for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API
JDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl
JavaScriptJava
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoView functions in JavaScriptnoyesyes infoproprietary syntax
Triggersnoyesnoyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding infowith a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-loungeyes, utilizing Spark CoreSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication infoalso with CouchDB databases
noneSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnoyesnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemnoneEventual ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynononoyesyes infonot for MyISAM storage engine
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanononoyesACID at shard level
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datanoyesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engine
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoby using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backendyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesnonoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnononofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or roles

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