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System Properties Comparison Immudb vs. MonetDB vs. Quasardb vs. SpatiaLite

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Name

Description

An open source immutable (append-only) database with cryptographic verification which makes it tamper-resistant and fully auditable.

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Spatial extension of SQLite

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Relational DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	0.24
Rank	#295	Overall
	#42	Key-value stores

Score	1.72
Rank	#135	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#332	Overall
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.56
Rank	#142	Overall
	#3	Spatial DBMS

Website

github.com/codenotary/immudb
immudb.io

www.monetdb.org

quasar.ai

www.gaia-gis.it/fossil/libspatialite/index

Technical documentation

docs.immudb.io

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

doc.quasar.ai/master

www.gaia-gis.it/gaia-sins/spatialite_topics.html

Developer

Codenotary

MonetDB BV

quasardb

Alessandro Furieri

Initial release

2020

2004

2009

2008

Current release

1.2.3, April 2022

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

5.0.0, August 2020

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

MPL 1.1, GPL v2.0 or LGPL v2.1

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

BSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like syntax

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

SQL-like query language

yes

APIs and other access methods

gRPC protocol
PostgreSQL wire protocol

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python

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

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

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

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

yes

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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