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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. MonetDB vs. OpenQM vs. Oracle

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Name

Description

High-performance, in-memory, MPP database specifically designed for in-memory analytics.

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

QpenQM is a high-performance, self-tuning, multi-value DBMS

Widely used RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

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Score	1.66
Rank	#138	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#135	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#291	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Score	1286.59
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

www.monetdb.org

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

www.oracle.com/database

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/database

Developer

Exasol

MonetDB BV

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Oracle

Initial release

2000

2004

1993

1980

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

3.4-12

23c, September 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

commercial

restricted free version is available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

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

with proprietary extensions

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

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

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

yes

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

can be realized in PL/SQL

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

isolation level can be parameterized

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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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