DBMS > MonetDB vs. mSQL vs. Newts vs. OushuDB vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. mSQL vs. Newts vs. OushuDB vs. Quasardb

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Name

Description

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

mSQL (Mini SQL) is a simple and lightweight RDBMS

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

A data warehouse powered by Apache HAWQ supporting descriptive analysis and advanced machine learning

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	1.72
Rank	#135	Overall
	#62	Relational DBMS

Score	1.26
Rank	#163	Overall
	#74	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#385	Overall
	#40	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.05
Rank	#357	Overall
	#151	Relational DBMS

Score	0.13
Rank	#332	Overall
	#28	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.monetdb.org

hughestech.com.au/products/msql

opennms.github.io/newts

www.oushu.com/product/oushuDB

quasar.ai

Technical documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

www.oushu.com/documentation

doc.quasar.ai/master

Developer

MonetDB BV

Hughes Technologies

OpenNMS Group

Oushu

quasardb

Initial release

2004

1994

2014

2009

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

4.4, October 2021

4.0.1, August 2020

3.14.1, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

commercial

free licenses can be provided

Open Source

Apache 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

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

A subset of ANSI SQL is implemented

no subqueries, aggregate functions, views, foreign keys, triggers

Full-featured ANSI SQL support

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP REST
Java API

JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Delphi
Java
Perl
PHP
Tcl

Java

C
C++

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

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding via remote tables

none

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

Sharding

consistent hashing

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

none

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

Hadoop integration

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

none

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

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

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

Kerberos, SSL and role based access

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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