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System Properties Comparison EventStoreDB vs. MonetDB

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Name

Description

Industrial-strength, open-source database solution built from the ground up for event sourcing.

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Primary database model

Event Store

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.14
Rank	#181	Overall
	#1	Event Stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Website

www.eventstore.com

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

developers.eventstore.com

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

Event Store Limited

MonetDB BV

Initial release

2012

2004

Current release

21.2, February 2021

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Server operating systems

Linux
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding via remote tables

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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