OS support

First windows supported version, only support linux and windows, special compilation requires for other platforms

Supports Windows/Linux/Unix/Mac OSX

Any OS that can run Java

Any OS that can run Java

Any OS that can run Java

Documentation

Full pre and post installation documentations

Extensive pre and post installation documentations

Extensive pre and post installation documentations

Full pre and post installation documentations

Extensive pre and post installation documentations

License

BSD License - Free

Depends - GPL for open source or Commercial for commercial

Apache License v2 - Free

BSD License - Free

Modified MPL - Free

Maximum Database Size

Unlimited

Unlimited

Unlimited

Unlimited (depends on memory)

Unlimited (depends on memory)

Maximum Number of Tables

Unlimited

Unlimited

Unlimited

Unlimited (depends on memory)

Unlimited (depends on memory)

Maximum Table Size

32 TB

64 TB

Unlimited

8 GB

?

Maximum Row Size

1.6 TB

8 kB

Unlimited

Unlimited (depends on memory)

?

Maximum Field Size

1 GB

255 B

2 GB

Unlimited (depends on memory)

?

Maximum Rows per Table

Unlimited

Unlimited (Limited by tablespace of 64TB)

Unlimited

Unlimited (depends on memory)

Unlimited (depends on memory)

Maximum Columns per Table

250 - 1600 depending on column types

1000 columns

1012 columns

Unlimited (depends on memory)

Unlimited (depends on memory)

Maximum Indexes per Table

Unlimited

64 indexes

32767 indexes

Unlimited (depends on memory)

Unlimited (depends on memory)

Indexes

32 fields - B-Tree, R-Tree, GiST, and Hash

16 fields - B-Tree

16 fields

?

?

Interfaces

ODBC, JDBC, C, etc.

ODBC, JDBC, C, etc.

JDBC

JDBC

JDBC

Transactional

ACID-compliant

InnoDB type tables only - ACID-compliant

Yes

?

Yes

Bind Variables

Yes

Yes

Yes

?

?

Stored Procedures

Yes - SQL, PL/Tcl, PL/pgSQL

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Trigger

Yes - SQL, PL/Tcl, PL/pgSQL

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Row Level Locking

Yes

Yes

Yes

?

Yes

Timeout

Yes

No

Yes - deadlock detection and timeout

Yes

Yes

Error Code

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Date Time

Broad range of date/time formats

Broad range of date/time formats

Broad range of date/time formats

Broad range of date/time formats

Broad range of date/time formats

Scalability/SMP

Each connection uses one CPU, but spread the processes of different connections across available CPUs

SMP is supported by using OS threads. All connections are executed in one thread, queries are not using multiple CPUs

Yes, embedded engine does all work in client threads

Multithread listener, but execute queries one at a time

Load Balancing

Select queries are distributed among the master and slave servers in random manner. Other queries are executed on master and replicated to slaves

MySQL clusters - handle transactions in a round robin manner

N/A

N/A

N/A

Replication

Slony1 replication solution, not core

Master-Slave replication and Chained replication

Master-Slave replication with manual fail-over

N/A

N/A

Online Backup

Write-ahead log and PostgreSQL point-in-time recovery, also Hot Standby System

Online Backup with Mysqldump, InnoDB Hot Backup (commercial add-on), MySQL Clusters commited log

Yes - Online backup utility

Yes - backup manually data files and redo logs

Yes - built-in tool

Cluster

PGCluster

in-memory, shared-nothing, replicatied to 4 replicas. If 1 node fails, currenct transaction fails even all other nodes survive

N/A

N/A

Yes?

Ease of Embedding in Java-based Application

Needs a lot of customizations

Can use MySQL Embedded

Almost no customization requires

Almost no customization requires

Almost no customization requires, and run as server after embedded