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DBMS > MonetDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Trafodion vs. XTDB

System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. ObjectBox vs. Trafodion vs. XTDB

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NameMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonObjectBox  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparisonXTDB infoformerly named Crux  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionA relational database management system that stores data in columnsLightweight, fast on-device database for IoT, Mobile and Embedded devices, persisting and synchronising objects and vectorsTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMSA general purpose database with bitemporal SQL and Datalog and graph queries
Primary database modelRelational DBMSObject oriented DBMS
Vector DBMS
Relational DBMSDocument store
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
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Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score1.29
Rank#166  Overall
#5  Object oriented DBMS
#7  Vector DBMS
Score0.18
Rank#332  Overall
#46  Document stores
Websitewww.monetdb.orggithub.com/­objectbox
objectbox.io
trafodion.apache.orggithub.com/­xtdb/­xtdb
www.xtdb.com
Technical documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationdocs.objectbox.iotrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.htmlwww.xtdb.com/­docs
DeveloperMonetDB BVObjectBox LimitedApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HPJuxt Ltd.
Initial release2004201720142019
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20234.0 (May 2024)2.3.0, February 20191.19, September 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Bindings are released under Apache 2.0 infoApache License 2.0Open Source infoApache 2.0Open Source infoMIT License
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC and C++C++, JavaClojure
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Android
Any POSIX system
Docker
iOS
Linux
macOS
QNX
Windows
LinuxAll OS with a Java 8 (and higher) VM
Linux
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyes, plus "flex" map-like typesyesyes, extensible-data-notation format
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.nonono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnoyeslimited SQL, making use of Apache Calcite
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
Proprietary native APIADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
HTTP REST
JDBC
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
C
C++
Dart (Flutter)
Go
Java
Kotlin
Python
Swift
All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.NetClojure
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in SQL, C, RnoJava Stored Proceduresno
Triggersyesnonono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding via remote tablesnoneShardingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusData sync between devices allowing occasional connected databases to work completely offlineyes, via HBaseyes, each node contains all data
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyes infovia user defined functions and HBaseno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesno
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes, flexibel persistency by using storage technologies like Apache Kafka, RocksDB or LMDB
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardyesfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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