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System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. ObjectBox vs. SQLite vs. Trafodion vs. Warp 10

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Name

Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.

Description

A relational database management system that stores data in columns

Extremely fast embedded database for small devices, IoT and Mobile

Widely used embeddable, in-process RDBMS

Transactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS

TimeSeries DBMS specialized on timestamped geo data based on LevelDB or HBase

Primary database model

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

Time Series DBMS

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Trend Chart

Score	1.72
Rank	#141	Overall
	#64	Relational DBMS

Score	1.29
Rank	#166	Overall
	#5	Object oriented DBMS

Score	111.41
Rank	#10	Overall
	#7	Relational DBMS

Score	0.14
Rank	#344	Overall
	#32	Time Series DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

www.monetdb.org/Documentation

docs.objectbox.io

www.sqlite.org/docs.html

trafodion.apache.org/documentation.html

www.warp10.io/content/02_Getting_started

Developer

MonetDB BV

ObjectBox Limited

Dwayne Richard Hipp

Apache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP

SenX

Initial release

2004

2017

2000

2014

2015

Current release

Dec2023 (11.49), December 2023

3.46.0 (23 May 2024), May 2024

2.3.0, February 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Mozilla Public License 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Open Source

Public Domain

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

Apache License 2.0

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

C and C++

C++, Java

Java

Server operating systems

FreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows

Android
iOS
Linux
macOS
Windows

server-less

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

yes

dynamic column types

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

not rigid because of 'dynamic typing' concept.

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

SQL-92 is not fully supported

yes

APIs and other access methods

JDBC
native C library

MAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC

Proprietary native API

ADO.NET

inofficial driver
JDBC

inofficial driver
ODBC

inofficial driver

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

HTTP API
Jupyter
WebSocket

Supported programming languages

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

C
C++
Dart
Go
Java
JavaScript

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Kotlin
Python

planned (as of Jan 2019)
Swift

Actionscript
Ada
Basic
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Forth
Fortran
Haskell
Java
JavaScript
Lisp
Lua
MatLab
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
PL/SQL
Python
R
Ruby
Scala
Scheme
Smalltalk
Tcl

All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes, in SQL, C, R

Java Stored Procedures

yes

WarpScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

Sharding via remote tables

none

Sharding

based on HBase

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Source-replica replication available in experimental status

online/offline synchronization between client and server

none

yes, via HBase

selectable replication factor

based on HBase

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

via user defined functions and HBase

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

based on HBase

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

via file-system locks

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.

yes

User concepts

Access control

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

Mandatory use of cryptographic tokens, containing fine-grained authorizations

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