DBMS > mSQL vs. RocksDB vs. TypeDB vs. VoltDB vs. YDB

System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. RocksDB vs. TypeDB vs. VoltDB vs. YDB

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Name

Description

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

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

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

Distributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS

Used for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory

A distributed fault-tolerant database service, with high availability, scalability, immediate consistency and ACID transactions and providing an Amazon DynamoDB compatible API

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

Relational DBMS

Document store
Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.27
Rank	#169	Overall
	#76	Relational DBMS

Score	3.41
Rank	#86	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	0.70
Rank	#230	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#106	Relational DBMS

Score	1.47
Rank	#157	Overall
	#73	Relational DBMS

Score	0.33
Rank	#287	Overall
	#43	Document stores
	#132	Relational DBMS

Website

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

rocksdb.org

typedb.com

www.voltdb.com

github.com/ydb-platform/ydb
ydb.tech

Technical documentation

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

typedb.com/docs

docs.voltdb.com

ydb.tech/en/docs

Developer

Hughes Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

Vaticle

VoltDB Inc.

Yandex

Initial release

1994

2013

2016

2010

2019

Current release

4.4, October 2021

9.2.1, May 2024

2.26.3, January 2024

11.3, April 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Open Source

AGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions

Open Source

Apache 2.0; commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Java

Java, C++

Server operating systems

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

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X

for development

Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Flexible Schema (defined schema, partial schema, schema free)

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

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

yes

only a subset of SQL 99

SQL-like query language (YQL)

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

C++ API
Java API

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

Java API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

RESTful HTTP API (DynamoDB compatible)

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

C#
C++
Erlang

not officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
PHP
Python

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

Java

Triggers

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

by using Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

Active-passive shard replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

substituted by the relationship feature

FOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported

Transaction concepts

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

yes

ACID

Transactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Data access is serialized by the server

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Snapshots and command logging

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

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

Users and roles with access to stored procedures

Access rights defined for Yandex Cloud users

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