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DBMS > DuckDB vs. MonetDB vs. Netezza vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. OrientDB

System Properties Comparison DuckDB vs. MonetDB vs. Netezza vs. Oracle Berkeley DB vs. OrientDB

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NameDuckDB  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonNetezza infoAlso called PureData System for Analytics by IBM  Xexclude from comparisonOracle Berkeley DB  Xexclude from comparisonOrientDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionAn embeddable, in-process, column-oriented SQL OLAP RDBMSA relational database management system that stores data in columnsData warehouse and analytics appliance part of IBM PureSystemsWidely used in-process key-value storeMulti-model DBMS (Document, Graph, Key/Value)
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value store infosupports sorted and unsorted key sets
Native XML DBMS infoin the Oracle Berkeley DB XML version
Document store
Graph DBMS
Key-value store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score4.63
Rank#69  Overall
#37  Relational DBMS
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score8.59
Rank#45  Overall
#29  Relational DBMS
Score2.01
Rank#126  Overall
#21  Key-value stores
#3  Native XML DBMS
Score3.25
Rank#89  Overall
#16  Document stores
#6  Graph DBMS
#13  Key-value stores
Websiteduckdb.orgwww.monetdb.orgwww.ibm.com/­products/­netezzawww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­berkeleydb.htmlorientdb.org
Technical documentationduckdb.org/­docswww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdocs.oracle.com/­cd/­E17076_05/­html/­index.htmlwww.orientdb.com/­docs/­last/­index.html
DeveloperMonetDB BVIBMOracle infooriginally developed by Sleepycat, which was acquired by OracleOrientDB LTD; CallidusCloud; SAP
Initial release20182004200019942010
Current release1.0.0, June 2024Dec2023 (11.49), December 202318.1.40, May 20203.2.29, March 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMIT LicenseOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercialOpen Source infocommercial license availableOpen Source infoApache version 2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC++CC, Java, C++ (depending on the Berkeley DB edition)Java
Server operating systemsserver-lessFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux infoincluded in applianceAIX
Android
FreeBSD
iOS
Linux
OS X
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows
All OS with a Java JDK (>= JDK 6)
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free infoSchema can be enforced for whole record ("schema-full") or for some fields only ("schema-hybrid")
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesnoyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.noyes infoonly with the Berkeley DB XML editionno
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyesyes infoSQL interfaced based on SQLite is availableSQL-like query language, no joins
APIs and other access methodsArrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
OLE DB
Tinkerpop technology stack with Blueprints, Gremlin, Pipes
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C# info3rd party driver
C++
Crystal info3rd party driver
Go info3rd party driver
Java
Lisp info3rd party driver
Python
R
Ruby info3rd party driver
Rust
Swift
Zig info3rd party driver
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C++
Fortran
Java
Lua
Perl
Python
R
.Net infoFigaro is a .Net framework assembly that extends Berkeley DB XML into an embeddable database engine for .NET
others infoThird-party libraries to manipulate Berkeley DB files are available for many languages
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js) info3rd party binding
Perl
Python
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Clojure
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in SQL, C, RyesnoJava, Javascript
Triggersnoyesnoyes infoonly for the SQL APIHooks
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding via remote tablesShardingnoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusSource-replica replicationSource-replica replicationMulti-source replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesnono infocould be achieved with distributed queries
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynoyesnonoyes inforelationship in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptnoAccess rights for users and roles; record level security configurable

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