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System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. MonetDB vs. OpenTenBase

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Name

Description

A robust and reliable RDBMS optimized to run all major SAP solutions

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

An enterprise-level distributed HTAP open source database based on PostgreSQL

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.15
Rank	#115	Overall
	#55	Relational DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#135	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#159	Relational DBMS

Website

maxdb.sap.com

www.monetdb.org

github.com/OpenTenBase/OpenTenBase
www.opentenbase.org

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

docs.opentenbase.org
docs.opentenbase.org/en

Developer

SAP, acquired from Software AG (Adabas-D) in 1997

MonetDB BV

OpenAtom Foundation, previously Tencent

Initial release

1984

2004

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

2.5, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

BSD-3

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Data scheme

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

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

C
Go
Java
PHP
Python

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in SQL, C, R

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

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

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standard

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