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System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. Newts vs. Transbase

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Name

Description

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Time Series DBMS based on Cassandra

A resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Time Series DBMS

Relational DBMS

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	2.20
Rank	#143	Overall
	#67	Relational DBMS

Score	0.00
Rank	#400	Overall
	#42	Time Series DBMS

Score	0.47
Rank	#288	Overall
	#130	Relational DBMS

Website

www.monetdb.org

opennms.github.io/newts

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase.html

Technical documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

github.com/OpenNMS/newts/wiki

www.transaction.de/en/products/transbase/features.html

Developer

MonetDB BV

OpenNMS Group

Transaction Software GmbH

Initial release

2004

2014

1987

Current release

Jul2021-SP2, July 2021

Transbase 8.3, 2022

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Apache 2.0

commercial

free development license

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

C and C++

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Linux
OS X
Windows

FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Data scheme

yes

schema-free

yes

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

SQL

Support of SQL

yes

SQL 2003 with some extensions

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

HTTP REST
Java API

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API

Supported programming languages

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

Java

C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python

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

Sharding

based on Cassandra

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

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

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

yes

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.

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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