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System Properties Comparison DataFS vs. FatDB vs. MonetDB vs. mSQL

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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

All data is stored inside objects which are linked by so-called link attributes. Objects consist of classes which can be extended and de-extended at runtime. Graphs can be defined with a struct.

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Primary database model

Object oriented DBMS

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.02
Rank	#369	Overall
	#18	Object oriented DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#135	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Website

newdatabase.com

www.monetdb.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

Technical documentation

dev.mobiland.com/Overview.xsp

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Mobiland AG

FatCloud

MonetDB BV

Hughes Technologies

Initial release

2018

2012

2004

1994

Current release

1.1.263, October 2022

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

4.4, October 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

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

Data scheme

Classes, Structs, and Lists are written in proprietary DataTypeDefinitionLanguage (.dtdl) and Objects consisting of those are written in proprietary DataAccessDefinitionLanguage (.dadl)

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
Proprietary client DLL
WinRT client

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
VB.Net

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

no, except callback-events from server when changes happened

yes

via applications

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Proprietary Sharding system

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

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

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

none

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

Windows-Profile

Can implement custom security layer via applications

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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