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System Properties Comparison MaxDB vs. MonetDB vs. Prometheus vs. Realm

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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

Open-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring system

A DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core Data

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store

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	7.56
Rank	#49	Overall
	#3	Time Series DBMS

Score	7.18
Rank	#52	Overall
	#8	Document stores

Website

Technical documentation

maxdb.sap.com/documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

prometheus.io/docs

realm.io/docs

Developer

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

MonetDB BV

Realm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019

Initial release

1984

2004

2015

2014

Current release

7.9.10.12, February 2024

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Limited community edition free

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

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

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
Windows

Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows

Data scheme

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

Numeric data only

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.

Import of XML data possible

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

APIs and other access methods

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
WebDAV

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

RESTful HTTP/JSON API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C#
Java
Perl
PHP
Python

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

.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby

.Net
Java

with Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in SQL, C, R

runs within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessary

Triggers

yes

Change Listeners

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Source-replica replication

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

yes

by Federation

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

none

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.

yes

In-Memory realm

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

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