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System Properties Comparison EJDB vs. MonetDB vs. Quasardb vs. RRDtool

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NameEJDB  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonRRDtool  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionEmbeddable document-store database library with JSON representation of queries (in MongoDB style)A relational database management system that stores data in columnsDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseIndustry standard data logging and graphing tool for time series data. RRD is an acronym for round-robin database. infoThe data is stored in a circular buffer, thus the system storage footprint remains constant over time.
Primary database modelDocument storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score0.31
Rank#296  Overall
#44  Document stores
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score1.90
Rank#132  Overall
#11  Time Series DBMS
Websitegithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdbwww.monetdb.orgquasar.aioss.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool
Technical documentationgithub.com/­Softmotions/­ejdb/­blob/­master/­README.mdwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­masteross.oetiker.ch/­rrdtool/­doc
DeveloperSoftmotionsMonetDB BVquasardbTobias Oetiker
Initial release2012200420091999
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20233.14.1, January 20241.8.0, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoGPLv2Open Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoGPL V2 and FLOSS
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCCC++C infoImplementations in Java (e.g. RRD4J) and C# available
Server operating systemsserver-lessFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
HP-UX
Linux
Data schemeschema-freeyesschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infostring, integer, double, bool, date, object_idyesyes infointeger and binaryNumeric data only
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.nono infoExporting into and restoring from XML files possible
Secondary indexesnoyesyes infowith tagsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSQL-like query languageno
APIs and other access methodsin-process shared libraryJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP APIin-process shared library
Pipes
Supported programming languagesActionscript
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lua
Objective-C
Pike
Python
Ruby
C
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C infowith librrd library
C# infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Java infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
JavaScript (Node.js) infowith a different implementation of RRDTool
Lua
Perl
PHP infowith a wrapper library
Python
Ruby
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in SQL, C, Rnono
Triggersnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding via remote tablesSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infotypically not needed, however similar functionality with collection joins possibleyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoRead/Write Lockingyesyesyes infoby using the rrdcached daemon
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailno

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