DBMS > MonetDB vs. Newts vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Riak TS

System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. Newts vs. Percona Server for MongoDB vs. Riak TS

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Name

Description

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

A drop-in replacement for MongoDB Community Edition with enterprise-grade features.

Riak TS is a distributed NoSQL database optimized for time series data and based on Riak KV

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.72
Rank	#145	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#383	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.52
Rank	#254	Overall
	#39	Document stores

Score	0.20
Rank	#319	Overall
	#27	Time Series DBMS

Website

www.monetdb.org

opennms.github.io/newts

www.percona.com/mongodb/software/percona-server-for-mongodb

Technical documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

docs.percona.com/percona-distribution-for-mongodb

www.tiot.jp/riak-docs/riak/ts/latest

Developer

MonetDB BV

OpenNMS Group

Percona

Open Source, formerly Basho Technologies

Initial release

2004

2014

2015

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

3.4.10-2.10, November 2017

3.0.0, September 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL Version 2

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

Erlang

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

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.

Secondary indexes

yes

restricted

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes, limited

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

HTTP REST
Java API

proprietary protocol using JSON

HTTP API
Native Erlang Interface

Supported programming languages

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

Java

Actionscript
C
C#
C++
Clojure
ColdFusion
D
Dart
Delphi
Erlang
Go
Groovy
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Perl
PHP
PowerShell
Prolog
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Smalltalk

unofficial client library
C#
C++

unofficial client library
Clojure

unofficial client library
Dart

unofficial client library
Erlang
Go

unofficial client library
Groovy

unofficial client library
Haskell

unofficial client library
Java
JavaScript

unofficial client library
Lisp

unofficial client library
Perl

unofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scala

unofficial client library
Smalltalk

unofficial client library

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

JavaScript

Erlang

Triggers

yes

pre-commit hooks and post-commit hooks

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

based on Cassandra

Sharding

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

Source-replica replication

selectable replication factor

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency

based on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency

based on Cassandra

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

links between datasets can be stored

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

In-memory capabilities

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

yes

via In-Memory Engine

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Access rights for users and roles

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