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System Properties Comparison InfinityDB vs. MonetDB vs. Newts vs. Quasardb vs. TimesTen

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NameInfinityDB  Xexclude from comparisonMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA Java embedded Key-Value Store which extends the Java Map interfaceA relational database management system that stores data in columnsTime Series DBMS based on CassandraDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelKey-value storeRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score0.00
Rank#378  Overall
#57  Key-value stores
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score0.14
Rank#332  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websiteboilerbay.comwww.monetdb.orgopennms.github.io/­newtsquasar.aiwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationboilerbay.com/­infinitydb/­manualwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperBoiler Bay Inc.MonetDB BVOpenNMS GroupquasardbOracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release20022004201420091998
Current release4.0Dec2023 (11.49), December 20233.14.1, January 202411 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageJavaCJavaC++
Server operating systemsAll OS with a Java VMFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
Data schemeyes infonested virtual Java Maps, multi-value, logical ‘tuple space’ runtime Schema upgradeyesschema-freeschema-freeyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyes infoall Java primitives, Date, CLOB, BLOB, huge sparse arraysyesyesyes infointeger and binaryyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nononono
Secondary indexesno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesnoyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLnoyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnoSQL-like query languageyes
APIs and other access methodsAccess via java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentNavigableMap Interface
Proprietary API to InfinityDB ItemSpace (boilerbay.com/­docs/­ItemSpaceDataStructures.htm)
JDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP REST
Java API
HTTP APIJDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesJavaC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnoyes, in SQL, C, RnonoPL/SQL
Triggersnoyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnoneSharding via remote tablesSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnonenone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infoREAD-COMMITTED or SERIALIZEDEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityno infomanual creation possible, using inversions based on multi-value capabilityyesnonoyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACID infoOptimistic locking for transactions; no isolation for bulk loadsACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTransient modeyes
User concepts infoAccess controlnofine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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