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System Properties Comparison eXtremeDB vs. Firebolt vs. MonetDB vs. OpenQM

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Name

Description

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

Highly scalable cloud data warehouse and analytics product

Forked from Clickhouse

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

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

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Multivalue DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.79
Rank	#212	Overall
	#100	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.49
Rank	#148	Overall
	#68	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#135	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.28
Rank	#291	Overall
	#10	Multivalue DBMS

Website

www.mcobject.com

www.firebolt.io

www.monetdb.org

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

Technical documentation

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

docs.firebolt.io

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

Developer

McObject

Firebolt Analytics Inc.

MonetDB BV

Rocket Software, originally Martin Phillips

Initial release

2001

2020

2004

1993

Current release

8.2, 2021

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

3.4-12

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

GPLv2, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

yes

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

hosted

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

with some exceptions

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.

support of XML interfaces available

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

.Net
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

Go
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

.Net
Basic
C
Java
Objective C
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding via remote tables

yes

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

depending on storage layer

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

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

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights can be defined down to the item level

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