DBMS > Linter vs. MonetDB vs. Oracle vs. Postgres-XL vs. TigerGraph

System Properties Comparison Linter vs. MonetDB vs. Oracle vs. Postgres-XL vs. TigerGraph

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Name

Description

RDBMS for high security requirements

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Widely used RDBMS

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

A complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-time

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS

Secondary database models

Spatial DBMS

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Document store
Graph DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
RDF store

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Spatial DBMS

with Oracle Spatial and Graph
Vector DBMS

since Oracle 23

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.03
Rank	#368	Overall
	#156	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#135	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	1286.59
Rank	#1	Overall
	#1	Relational DBMS

Score	0.43
Rank	#260	Overall
	#119	Relational DBMS

Score	1.44
Rank	#152	Overall
	#14	Graph DBMS

Website

linter.ru

www.monetdb.org

www.oracle.com/database

www.postgres-xl.org

www.tigergraph.com

Technical documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

docs.oracle.com/en/database

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

docs.tigergraph.com

Developer

relex.ru

MonetDB BV

Oracle

Initial release

1990

2004

1980

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2017

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

23c, September 2023

10 R1, October 2018

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

restricted free version is available

Open Source

Mozilla public license

commercial

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
Android
BSD
HP Open VMS
iOS
Linux
OS X
VxWorks
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
z/OS

Linux
macOS

Linux

Data scheme

yes

Schemaless in JSON and XML columns

yes

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.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

SQL-like query language (GSQL)

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
LINQ
ODBC
OLE DB
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

GSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

C
C#
C++
Java
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Ruby
Tcl

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

C
C#
C++
Clojure
Cobol
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Fortran
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Objective C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Tcl
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

C++
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

proprietary syntax with the possibility to convert from PL/SQL

yes, in SQL, C, R

PL/SQL

also stored procedures in Java possible

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding, horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

can be realized in PL/SQL

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Relationships in graphs

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

ACID

isolation level can be parameterized

ACID

MVCC

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

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

Version 12c introduced the new option 'Oracle Database In-Memory'

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role-based access control

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