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Name

Description

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

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Spatial DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	4.79
Rank	#65	Overall
	#35	Relational DBMS

Score	1.70
Rank	#137	Overall
	#63	Relational DBMS

Score	20.96
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Website

duckdb.org

www.monetdb.org

postgis.net

Technical documentation

duckdb.org/docs

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

postgis.net/documentation

Developer

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2018

2004

2005

Current release

1.0.0, June 2024

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT License

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

server-less

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
CLI Client
JDBC
ODBC

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

user defined functions

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding via remote tables

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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, 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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

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