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System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. NuoDB vs. SQL.JS vs. VoltDB

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NameMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonNuoDB  Xexclude from comparisonSQL.JS  Xexclude from comparisonVoltDB  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA relational database management system that stores data in columnsNuoDB is a webscale distributed database that supports SQL and ACID transactionsPort of SQLite to JavaScriptDistributed In-Memory NewSQL RDBMS infoUsed for OLTP applications with a high frequency of relatively simple transactions, that can hold all their data in memory
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.72
Rank#135  Overall
#62  Relational DBMS
Score0.87
Rank#201  Overall
#94  Relational DBMS
Score0.53
Rank#246  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Score1.38
Rank#156  Overall
#72  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.monetdb.orgwww.3ds.com/­nuodb-distributed-sql-databasesql.js.orgwww.voltdb.com
Technical documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdoc.nuodb.comsql.js.org/­documentation/­index.htmldocs.voltdb.com
DeveloperMonetDB BVDassault Systèmes infooriginally NuoDB, Inc.Alon Zakai infoenhancements implemented by othersVoltDB Inc.
Initial release2004201320122010
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 202311.3, April 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0commercial infolimited edition freeOpen SourceOpen Source infoAGPL for Community Edition, commercial license for Enterprise, AWS, and Pro Editions
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC++JavaScriptJava, C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
hosted infoAmazon EC2, Windows Azure, SoftLayer
Linux
OS X
Windows
server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)Linux
OS X infofor development
Data schemeyesyesyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesyesyes
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.nono
Secondary indexesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyesyes infoSQL-92 is not fully supportedyes infoonly a subset of SQL 99
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
JavaScript APIJava API
JDBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
JavaScriptC#
C++
Erlang infonot officially supported
Go
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in SQL, C, RJava, SQLnoJava
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding via remote tablesdata is dynamically stored/cached on the nodes where it is read/writtennoneSharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusyes infoManaged transparently by NuoDBnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno infoFOREIGN KEY constraints are not supported
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACID infotunable commit protocolACIDACID infoTransactions are executed single-threaded within stored procedures
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyes infoMVCCyes infoData access is serialized by the server
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesno infoexcept by serializing a db to a fileyes infoSnapshots and command logging
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infoTemporary tableyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardStandard SQL roles/ privileges, Administrative UsersnoUsers and roles with access to stored procedures

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