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System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. NSDb vs. OrigoDB vs. SQL.JS

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Name

Description

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Scalable, High-performance Time Series DBMS designed for Real-time Analytics on top of Kubernetes

A fully ACID in-memory object graph database

Port of SQLite to JavaScript

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	0.08
Rank	#369	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.06
Rank	#380	Overall
	#50	Document stores
	#19	Object oriented DBMS

Score	0.63
Rank	#241	Overall
	#112	Relational DBMS

Website

www.monetdb.org

Technical documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

nsdb.io/Architecture

origodb.com/docs

sql.js.org/documentation/index.html

Developer

MonetDB BV

Robert Friberg et al

Alon Zakai

enhancements implemented by others

Initial release

2004

2017

2009

under the name LiveDB

2012

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

Open Source

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

no

no

no

no

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

C

Java, Scala

C#

JavaScript

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
macOS

Linux
Windows

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

yes

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes: int, bigint, decimal, string

User defined using .NET types and collections

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.

no

no

can be achieved using .NET

no

Secondary indexes

yes

all fields are automatically indexed

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

SQL-like query language

no

yes

SQL-92 is not fully supported

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

gRPC
HTTP REST
WebSocket

.NET Client API
HTTP API
LINQ

JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

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

Java
Scala

.Net

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

no

yes

no

Triggers

yes

yes

Domain Events

no

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

client side managed; servers are not synchronized

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

Source-replica replication

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

no

no

no

no

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

none

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

no

depending on model

yes

Transaction concepts

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

ACID

no

ACID

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

yes

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

Using Apache Lucene

yes

Write ahead log

no

except by serializing a db to a file

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Role based authorization

no

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