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Name

FatDB/FatCloud has ceased operations as a company with February 2014. FatDB is discontinued and excluded from the ranking.

Description

A .NET NoSQL DBMS that can integrate with and extend SQL Server.

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Primary database model

Document store
Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#19	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.monetdb.org

nsdb.io

origodb.com

Technical documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

nsdb.io/Architecture

origodb.com/docs

Developer

FatCloud

MonetDB BV

Robert Friberg et al

Initial release

2012

2004

2017

2009

under the name LiveDB

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java, Scala

Server operating systems

Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

can be achieved using .NET

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

Via inetgration in SQL Server

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
LINQ
RESTful HTTP API
RPC
Windows WCF Bindings

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

Supported programming languages

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

Java
Scala

.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

via applications

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

Triggers

yes

via applications

yes

Domain Events

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

depending on model

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

Using Apache Lucene

yes

Write ahead log

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Can implement custom security layer via applications

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based authorization

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