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System Properties Comparison Axibase vs. DuckDB vs. MonetDB vs. STSdb

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Name

Description

Scalable TimeSeries DBMS based on HBase with integrated rule engine and visualization

An embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMS

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Key-Value Store with special method for indexing

optimized for high performance using a special indexing method

Primary database model

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Key-value store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.21
Rank	#308	Overall
	#25	Time Series DBMS

Score	5.61
Rank	#60	Overall
	#34	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#135	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.03
Rank	#365	Overall
	#54	Key-value stores

Website

axibase.com/docs/atsd/finance

duckdb.org

www.monetdb.org

github.com/STSSoft/STSdb4

Technical documentation

duckdb.org/docs

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Axibase Corporation

MonetDB BV

STS Soft SC

Initial release

2013

2018

2004

2011

Current release

15585

1.0.0, June 2024

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

4.0.8, September 2015

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Community Edition (single node) is free, Enterprise Edition (distributed) is paid

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

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

Java

C++

Server operating systems

Linux

server-less

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

short, integer, long, float, double, decimal, string

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
Proprietary protocol (Network API)
RESTful HTTP API

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

.NET Client API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
PHP
Python
R
Ruby

C
C#

3rd party driver
C++
Crystal

3rd party driver
Go

3rd party driver
Java
Lisp

3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby

3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig

3rd party driver

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

C#
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

none

Sharding via remote tables

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

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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