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

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Name

Description

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

Spatial extension of PostgreSQL

Distributed, high-performance timeseries database

WakandaDB is embedded in a server that provides a REST API and a server-side javascript engine to access data

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Relational DBMS

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Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	0.07
Rank	#375	Overall
	#41	Time Series DBMS

Score	21.72
Rank	#29	Overall
	#1	Spatial DBMS

Score	0.21
Rank	#322	Overall
	#29	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.10
Rank	#356	Overall
	#16	Object oriented DBMS

Website

www.monetdb.org

opennms.github.io/newts

postgis.net

quasar.ai

wakanda.github.io

Technical documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

postgis.net/documentation

doc.quasar.ai/master

wakanda.github.io/doc

Developer

MonetDB BV

OpenNMS Group

quasardb

Wakanda SAS

Initial release

2004

2014

2005

2009

2012

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

3.4.2, February 2024

3.14.1, January 2024

2.7.0 (April 29, 2019), April 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL v2.0

commercial

Free community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licenses

Open Source

AGPLv3, extended commercial license available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

DBaaS offerings (sponsored links)

Database as a Service

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Implementation language

Java

C++

C++, JavaScript

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

integer and binary

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.

yes

Secondary indexes

yes

with tags

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

SQL-like query language

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

HTTP REST
Java API

HTTP API

RESTful HTTP API

Supported programming languages

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

Java

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

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

user defined functions

yes

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding via remote tables

Sharding

based on Cassandra

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Sharding

consistent hashing

none

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

selectable replication factor

based on Cassandra

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Source-replica replication with selectable replication factor

none

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

with Hadoop integration

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

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

yes

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

yes

based on PostgreSQL

Cryptographically strong user authentication and audit trail

yes

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