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Name

Description

In-memory caching system

Widely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Primary database model

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Search engine

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.04
Rank	#388	Overall
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Score	1.05
Rank	#186	Overall
	#86	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	16.03
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Website

cachelot.io

www.gbase.cn

www.monetdb.org

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

Technical documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

opensearch.org/docs/latest

Developer

General Data Technology Co., Ltd.

MonetDB BV

Amazon Web Services

Initial release

2015

2004

2021

Current release

GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Simplified BSD License

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

C, Java, Python

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X

Linux

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

SQL

Support of SQL

Standard with numerous extensions

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

Memcached protocol

ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby

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

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

Triggers

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

horizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioning

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

yes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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