DBMS > eXtremeDB vs. MonetDB vs. Newts vs. OpenSearch vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison eXtremeDB vs. MonetDB vs. Newts vs. OpenSearch vs. Quasardb

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Name

Description

Natively in-memory DBMS with options for persistency, high-availability and clustering

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

A distributed, RESTful search and analytics engine forked from Elasticsearch and based on Apache Lucene

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Relational DBMS
Time Series DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Vector DBMS

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Score	0.74
Rank	#223	Overall
	#103	Relational DBMS
	#18	Time Series DBMS

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	16.36
Rank	#37	Overall
	#4	Search engines

Score	0.14
Rank	#332	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.mcobject.com

www.monetdb.org

opennms.github.io/newts

github.com/opensearch-project
opensearch.org

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

www.mcobject.com/docs/extremedb.htm

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

opensearch.org/docs/latest

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

McObject

MonetDB BV

OpenNMS Group

Amazon Web Services

quasardb

Initial release

2001

2004

2014

2021

2009

Current release

8.2, 2021

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

2.5.0, January 2023

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

commercial

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

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Implementation language

C and C++

Java

C++

Server operating systems

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

All OS with a Java VM

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Flexible type definitions. Once a type is defined, it is persistent

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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.

support of XML interfaces available

Secondary indexes

yes

All search fields are automatically indexed

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

with the option: eXtremeSQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

.NET Client API
JDBC
JNI
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
RESTful HTTP API

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

HTTP REST
Java API

Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON API

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
Lua
Python
Scala

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

Java

Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby

Elasticsearch client

.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

Triggers

yes

by defining events

yes

by using the 'percolation' feature

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning / sharding

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

Active Replication Fabric™ for IoT
Multi-source replication

by means of eXtremeDB Cluster option
Source-replica replication

by means of eXtremeDB High Availability option

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency

Synchronous doc based replication. Get by ID may show delays up to 1 sec. Configurable write consistency: one, quorum, all

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

Optimistic (MVCC) and pessimistic (locking) strategies available

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

by using LevelDB

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

Transient mode

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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Licensing and pricing models

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