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System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. Newts vs. OpenTSDB vs. Quasardb vs. Sequoiadb

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NameMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonSequoiadb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA relational database management system that stores data in columnsTime Series DBMS based on CassandraScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseNewSQL database with distributed OLTP and SQL
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Relational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.72
Rank#148  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#396  Overall
#42  Time Series DBMS
Score1.73
Rank#147  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.19
Rank#327  Overall
#30  Time Series DBMS
Score0.48
Rank#260  Overall
#41  Document stores
#121  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.monetdb.orgopennms.github.io/­newtsopentsdb.netquasar.aiwww.sequoiadb.com
Technical documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikiopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­masterwww.sequoiadb.com/­en/­index.php?m=Files&a=index
DeveloperMonetDB BVOpenNMS Groupcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsquasardbSequoiadb Ltd.
Initial release20042014201120092013
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20233.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoLGPLcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensesOpen Source infoServer: AGPL; Client: Apache V2
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaJavaC++C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes infointeger and binaryyes infooid, date, timestamp, binary, regex
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnonoyes infowith tagsyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnonoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP REST
Java API
HTTP API
Telnet API
HTTP APIproprietary protocol using JSON
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
JavaErlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
.Net
C++
Java
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in SQL, C, RnononoJavaScript
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding via remote tablesSharding infobased on CassandraSharding infobased on HBaseSharding infoconsistent hashingSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandraselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replication with selectable replication factorSource-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononowith Hadoop integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate ConsistencyEventual Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnononono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnonoACIDDocument is locked during a transaction
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nonoyes infoTransient modeno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnonoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailsimple password-based access control

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