DBMS > MonetDB vs. MySQL vs. Riak KV vs. Trafodion vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. MySQL vs. Riak KV vs. Trafodion vs. XTDB

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Widely used open source RDBMS

Distributed, fault tolerant key-value store

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

A general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key/Value like access via memcached API

Key-value store

with links between data sets and object tags for the creation of secondary indexes

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	1083.74
Rank	#2	Overall
	#2	Relational DBMS

Score	4.10
Rank	#82	Overall
	#9	Key-value stores

Score	0.11
Rank	#343	Overall
	#46	Document stores

Website

www.monetdb.org

www.mysql.com

trafodion.apache.org

github.com/xtdb/xtdb
www.xtdb.com

Technical documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

dev.mysql.com/doc

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/kv/latest

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

www.xtdb.com/docs

Developer

MonetDB BV

Oracle

since 2010, originally MySQL AB, then Sun

OpenSource, formerly Basho Technologies

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

Juxt Ltd.

Initial release

2004

1995

2009

2014

2019

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

8.4.0, April 2024

3.2.0, December 2022

2.3.0, February 2019

1.19, September 2021

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

GPL version 2. Commercial licenses with extended functionallity are available

Open Source

Apache version 2, commercial enterprise edition

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

MIT License

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

Erlang

C++, Java

Clojure

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X

Linux

All OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, extensible-data-notation format

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

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

with proprietary extensions

yes

limited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
JDBC

Supported programming languages

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

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Clojure
Java

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

proprietary syntax

Erlang

Java Stored Procedures

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding via remote tables

horizontal partitioning, sharding with MySQL Cluster or MySQL Fabric

Sharding

no "single point of failure"

Sharding

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Multi-source replication
Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

yes, via HBase

yes, each node contains all data

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

not for MyISAM storage engine

links between data sets can be stored

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

not for MyISAM storage engine

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

table locks or row locks depending on storage engine

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

yes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Users with fine-grained authorization concept

no user groups or roles

yes, using Riak Security

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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