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System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. Newts vs. Oracle NoSQL vs. PostGIS vs. Quasardb

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NameMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonOracle NoSQL  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA relational database management system that stores data in columnsTime Series DBMS based on CassandraA multi-model, scalable, distributed NoSQL database, designed to provide highly reliable, flexible, and available data management across a configurable set of storage nodesSpatial extension of PostgreSQLDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument store
Key-value store
Relational DBMS
Spatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
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Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score3.05
Rank#97  Overall
#17  Document stores
#16  Key-value stores
#50  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.monetdb.orgopennms.github.io/­newtswww.oracle.com/­database/­nosql/­technologies/­nosqlpostgis.netquasar.ai
Technical documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikidocs.oracle.com/­en/­database/­other-databases/­nosql-database/­index.htmlpostgis.net/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperMonetDB BVOpenNMS GroupOraclequasardb
Initial release20042014201120052009
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 202323.3, December 20233.4.2, February 20243.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoProprietary for Enterprise Edition (Oracle Database EE license has Oracle NoSQL database EE covered: details)Open Source infoGPL v2.0commercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaJavaCC++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Solaris SPARC/x86
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeSupport Fixed schema and Schema-less deployment with the ability to interoperate between them.yesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesoptionalyesyes infointeger and binary
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.nonoyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnoSQL-like DML and DDL statementsyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP REST
Java API
RESTful HTTP APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
JavaC
C#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in SQL, C, Rnonouser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnonoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding via remote tablesSharding infobased on CassandraShardingyes infobased on PostgreSQLSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusselectable replication factor infobased on CassandraElectable source-replica replication per shard. Support distributed global deployment with Multi-region table featureyes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationnowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency infodepending on configuration
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoconfigurable infoACID within a storage node (=shard)ACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes infoby using LevelDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infooff heap cachenoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAccess rights for users and rolesyes infobased on PostgreSQLCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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