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System Properties Comparison EXASOL vs. MonetDB vs. Raima Database Manager

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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

RDBMS with a small footprint, either embedded into an application or used as a database server

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.49
Rank	#142	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	1.62
Rank	#133	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.27
Rank	#289	Overall
	#130	Relational DBMS
	#23	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.exasol.com

www.monetdb.org

raima.com

Technical documentation

www.exasol.com/resources

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

docs.raima.com

Developer

Exasol

MonetDB BV

Raima Inc.

Initial release

2000

2004

1984

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

15, June 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

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

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
HP-UX
Integrity RTOS
iOS
Linux
OS X
QNX
Solaris
VxWorks
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.

Exporting/Importing of XML structures possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

.Net
JDBC
ODBC
WebSocket

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

Java
Lua
Python
R

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

.Net
C
C++
Objective-C
PL/SQL

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

user defined functions

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

based on the ANSI/ISO SQL Persistent Stored Modules (PSM) specification

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Immediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration

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

yes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)

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

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

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

More information provided by the system vendor

News

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9 July 2024

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29 February 2024

Raima Announces Release of Raima Database Manager (RDM) v15, a Powerful Embedded Time Series Database
10 June 2021

Raima Announces Release of Raima Database Manager (RDM) v14.2, a Powerful IoT Edge Embedded Database
8 October 2020

Raima Joins BlackBerry QNX Channel Partner Program to Deliver Safety-Critical and Secure Software Solutions
1 October 2020

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