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DBMS > MonetDB vs. Newts vs. PlanetScale vs. PostGIS vs. Quasardb

System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. Newts vs. PlanetScale vs. PostGIS vs. Quasardb

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NameMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPlanetScale  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA relational database management system that stores data in columnsTime Series DBMS based on CassandraScalable, distributed, serverless MySQL database platform built on top of VitessSpatial extension of PostgreSQLDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSRelational DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document 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
Score1.49
Rank#155  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.monetdb.orgopennms.github.io/­newtsplanetscale.compostgis.netquasar.ai
Technical documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikiplanetscale.com/­docspostgis.net/­documentationdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperMonetDB BVOpenNMS GroupPlanetScalequasardb
Initial release20042014202020052009
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20233.4.2, February 20243.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercialOpen 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 servicenonoyesnono
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Implementation languageCJavaGoCC++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Docker
Linux
macOS
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyesyes 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.noyesno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesyesyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnoyes infowith proprietary extensionsyesSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP REST
Java API
ADO.NET
JDBC
MySQL protocol
ODBC
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
JavaAda
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in SQL, C, Rnoyes infoproprietary syntaxuser defined functionsno
Triggersyesnoyesyesno
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 CassandraMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
yes infobased on PostgreSQLSource-replica replication with selectable replication factor
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonononowith Hadoop integration
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemEventual Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Immediate Consistency infobased on Cassandra
Eventual Consistency across shards
Immediate Consistency within a shard
Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyes infonot for MyISAM storage engineyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID at shard levelACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes infotable locks or row locks depending on storage engineyesyes
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.noyesnoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoUsers with fine-grained authorization concept infono user groups or rolesyes infobased on PostgreSQLCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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