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DBMS > MonetDB vs. NSDb vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. VoltDB

System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. NSDb vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. VoltDB

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NameMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonNSDb  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA relational database management system that stores data in columnsScalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of KubernetesA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
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Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score2.95
Rank#100  Overall
#17  Document stores
#17  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score1.44
Rank#158  Overall
#73  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.monetdb.orgnsdb.iowww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationnsdb.io/­Architecturedocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmldocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperMonetDB BVOracleVoltDB Inc.
Initial release2004201720112010
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 202323.3, December 202311.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache Version 2.0Open Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCJava, ScalaJavaJava, C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
macOS
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes: int, bigint, decimal, stringoptionalyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nono
Secondary indexesyesall fields are automatically indexedyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsSQL-like query languageSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket
RESTful HTTP APIJava API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java
Scala
C
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
C#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in SQL, C, RnonoJava
Triggersyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding via remote tablesShardingShardingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonono infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesUsing Apache Luceneyesyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infooff heap cache
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users and rolesUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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