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System Properties Comparison Citus vs. jBASE vs. MonetDB

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Name

Description

Scalable hybrid operational and analytics RDBMS for big data use cases based on PostgreSQL

A robust multi-value DBMS comprising development tools and middleware

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.13
Rank	#117	Overall
	#56	Relational DBMS

Score	1.36
Rank	#157	Overall
	#3	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#135	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Website

www.citusdata.com

www.rocketsoftware.com/products/rocket-multivalue-application-development-platform/rocket-jbase

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

docs.citusdata.com

docs.rocketsoftware.com/bundle?labelkey=jbase_5.9

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Rocket Software (formerly Zumasys)

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2010

1991

2004

Current release

8.1, December 2018

5.7

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

AGPL, commercial license also available

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux

AIX
Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

optional

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

specific XML type available, but no XML query functionality

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

standard, with numerous extensions

Embedded SQL for jBASE in BASIC

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API
SOAP-based API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

.Net
Basic
Jabbascript
Java

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

realized in proprietary language PL/pgSQL or with common languages like Perl, Python, Tcl etc.

yes

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

other methods possible by using 3rd party extensions

yes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

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

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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