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System Properties Comparison mSQL vs. Sadas Engine vs. STSdb vs. XTDB vs. YugabyteDB

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Name

Description

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

SADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environments

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

High-performance distributed SQL database for global, internet-scale applications. Wire and feature compatible with PostgreSQL.

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Wide column store

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Score	1.27
Rank	#167	Overall
	#77	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#158	Relational DBMS

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

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Score	2.91
Rank	#102	Overall
	#51	Relational DBMS

Website

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

www.sadasengine.com

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

www.yugabyte.com

Technical documentation

www.sadasengine.com/en/sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/#documentation

www.xtdb.com/docs

docs.yugabyte.com
github.com/yugabyte/yugabyte-db

Developer

Hughes Technologies

SADAS s.r.l.

STS Soft SC

Juxt Ltd.

Yugabyte Inc.

Initial release

1994

2006

2011

2019

2017

Current release

4.4, October 2021

8.0

4.0.8, September 2015

1.19, September 2021

2.19, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

free licenses can be provided

commercial

free trial version available

Open Source

GPLv2, commercial license available

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Clojure

C and C++

Server operating systems

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

AIX
Linux
Windows

Windows

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

depending on used data model

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

primitive types and user defined types (classes)

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

yes, PostgreSQL compatible

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol

.NET Client API

HTTP REST
JDBC

JDBC
YCQL, an SQL-based flexible-schema API with its roots in Cassandra Query Language
YSQL - a fully relational SQL API that is wire compatible with the SQL language in PostgreSQL

Supported programming languages

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python

C#
Java

Clojure
Java

C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Rust
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

sql, plpgsql, C

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning

none

Hash and Range Sharding, row-level geo-partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes, each node contains all data

Based on Raft distributed consensus protocol, minimum 3 replicas for continuous availability

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Strong consistency on writes and tunable consistency on reads

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Distributed ACID with Serializable & Snapshot Isolation. Inspired by Google Spanner architecture.

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

yes

based on RocksDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

managed by 'Learn by Usage'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

yes

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

Apache 2.0 license for the database
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