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DBMS > MonetDB vs. OceanBase vs. Sadas Engine vs. TimesTen

System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. OceanBase vs. Sadas Engine vs. TimesTen

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NameMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonOceanBase  Xexclude from comparisonSadas Engine  Xexclude from comparisonTimesTen  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA relational database management system that stores data in columnsA distributed, high available RDBMS compatible with Oracle and MySQLSADAS Engine is a columnar DBMS specifically designed for high performance in data warehouse environmentsIn-Memory RDBMS compatible to Oracle
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Document store
Wide column store
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score1.66
Rank#147  Overall
#68  Relational DBMS
Score0.00
Rank#383  Overall
#158  Relational DBMS
Score1.31
Rank#163  Overall
#74  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.monetdb.orgen.oceanbase.comwww.sadasengine.comwww.oracle.com/­database/­technologies/­related/­timesten.html
Technical documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationen.oceanbase.com/­docs/­oceanbase-databasewww.sadasengine.com/­en/­sadas-engine-download-free-trial-and-documentation/­#documentationdocs.oracle.com/­database/­timesten-18.1
DeveloperMonetDB BVOceanBase infopreviously Alibaba and Ant GroupSADAS s.r.l.Oracle, TimesTen Performance Software, HP infooriginally founded in HP Labs it was acquired by Oracle in 2005
Initial release2004201020061998
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20234.3.0, April 20248.011 Release 2 (11.2.2.8.0)
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoCommercial license availablecommercial infofree trial version availablecommercial
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenononono
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Implementation languageCC++C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
LinuxAIX
Linux
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
Solaris SPARC/x86
Windows
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.yesnono
Secondary indexesyesyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsyesyesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Proprietary native API
Table API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
JDBC
ODBC
ODP.NET
Oracle Call Interface (OCI)
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Ada infoin MySQL-compatible model
C infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
C++ infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
D infoin MySQL-compatible model
Delphi infoin MySQL-compatible model
Eiffel infoin MySQL-compatible model
Erlang infoin MySQL-compatible model
Haskell infoin MySQL-compatible model
Java infoin Oracle- and MySQL- compatible models
JavaScript (Node.js) infoin MySQL-compatible model
Objective-C infoin MySQL-compatible model
OCaml infoin MySQL-compatible model
Perl infoin MySQL-compatible model
PHP infoin MySQL-compatible model
Python infoin MySQL-compatible model
Ruby infoin MySQL-compatible model
Scheme infoin MySQL-compatible model
Tcl infoin MySQL-compatible model
.Net
C
C#
C++
Groovy
Java
PHP
Python
C
C++
Java
PL/SQL
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in SQL, C, RPL/SQL in oracle-compatible mode, MySQL Stored Procedure in mysql-compatible modenoPL/SQL
Triggersyesyesnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding via remote tableshorizontal partitioning (by hash, key, range, range columns, list, and list columns)horizontal partitioningnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusMulti-source replication using PaxosnoneMulti-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 ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency or Eventual Consistency depending on configuration
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyes infoby means of logfiles and checkpoints
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.yes infomanaged by 'Learn by Usage'yes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard
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Specific characteristicsOceanBase Database is the world’s only native distributed database that has set new...
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Competitive advantagesHigh Availability : The five IDCs across three sites disaster recovery solution sets...
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Key customersOceanBase Database has helped over 400 customers across industries upgrade their...
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Market metricsTPC-C No.1 Performance , achieved a result of 707.35 million tpmC in the TPC-C benchmark...
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Licensing and pricing modelsMulan PubL v2 license for open source community edition. Commercial license for enterprise...
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