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Name

Description

DBMS for storing time series, events and metrics

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

High performance knowledge graph and semantic reasoning engine

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

with GEO package

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	24.39
Rank	#28	Overall
	#1	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#300	Overall
	#24	Graph DBMS
	#13	RDF stores

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Website

www.influxdata.com/products/influxdb-overview

www.monetdb.org

www.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.sqlite.org

Technical documentation

docs.influxdata.com/influxdb

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

docs.oxfordsemantic.tech

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

Developer

MonetDB BV

Oxford Semantic Technologies

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Initial release

2013

2004

2017

2000

Current release

2.7.6, April 2024

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

6.0, Septermber 2022

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

MIT-License; commercial enterprise version available

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

Open Source

Public Domain

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X

through Homebrew

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

RDF schemas

yes

dynamic column types

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

Numeric data and Strings

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

HTTP API
JSON over UDP

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

RESTful HTTP API
SPARQL 1.1

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

Supported programming languages

.Net
Clojure
Erlang
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Rust
Scala

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

C
Java

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding

in enterprise version only

Sharding via remote tables

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

selectable replication factor

in enterprise version only

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

replication via a shared file system

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency in stand-alone mode, Eventual Consistency in replicated setups

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

via file-system locks

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

Depending on used storage engine

yes

User concepts

Access control

simple rights management via user accounts

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Roles, resources, and access types

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Specific characteristics

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Competitive advantages

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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