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

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NameMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonNewts  Xexclude from comparisonPostGIS  Xexclude from comparisonPrometheus  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA relational database management system that stores data in columnsTime Series DBMS based on CassandraSpatial extension of PostgreSQLOpen-source Time Series DBMS and monitoring systemDistributed, high-performance timeseries database
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSSpatial DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Relational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score0.07
Rank#375  Overall
#41  Time Series DBMS
Score21.72
Rank#29  Overall
#1  Spatial DBMS
Score7.69
Rank#50  Overall
#3  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Websitewww.monetdb.orgopennms.github.io/­newtspostgis.netprometheus.ioquasar.ai
Technical documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationgithub.com/­OpenNMS/­newts/­wikipostgis.net/­documentationprometheus.io/­docsdoc.quasar.ai/­master
DeveloperMonetDB BVOpenNMS Groupquasardb
Initial release20042014200520152009
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 2.0Open Source infoGPL v2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0commercial 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 languageCJavaCGoC++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesNumeric data onlyyes 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 infoImport of XML data possibleno
Secondary indexesyesnoyesnoyes infowith tags
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnoyesnoSQL-like query language
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP REST
Java API
RESTful HTTP/JSON APIHTTP API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Java.Net
C++
Go
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in SQL, C, Rnouser defined functionsnono
Triggersyesnoyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding via remote tablesSharding infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLShardingSharding infoconsistent hashing
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusselectable replication factor infobased on Cassandrayes infobased on PostgreSQLyes infoby FederationSource-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
Immediate ConsistencynoneImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDnoACID
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.nononoyes infoTransient mode
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyes infobased on PostgreSQLnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

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