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System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. Quasardb vs. TigerGraph vs. TinkerGraph

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NameMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonQuasardb  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA relational database management system that stores data in columnsScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseDistributed, high-performance timeseries databaseA complete, distributed, parallel graph computing platform supporting web-scale data analytics in real-timeA lightweight, in-memory graph engine that serves as a reference implementation of the TinkerPop3 API
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSTime Series DBMSGraph DBMSGraph DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score1.72
Rank#141  Overall
#64  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#142  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score0.21
Rank#322  Overall
#29  Time Series DBMS
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.monetdb.orgopentsdb.netquasar.aiwww.tigergraph.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmldoc.quasar.ai/­masterdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperMonetDB BVcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsquasardb
Initial release20042011200920172009
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20233.14.1, January 2024
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoLGPLcommercial infoFree community edition, Non-profit organizations and non-commercial usage are eligible for free licensescommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaC++C++Java
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
BSD
Linux
OS X
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyes infointeger and binaryyesyes
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.nononono
Secondary indexesyesnoyes infowith tagsno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnoSQL-like query languageSQL-like query language (GSQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP API
Telnet API
HTTP APIGSQL (TigerGraph Query Language)
Kafka
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
TinkerPop 3
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C
C#
C++
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
R
C++
Java
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in SQL, C, Rnonoyesno
Triggersyesnononono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding via remote tablesSharding infobased on HBaseSharding infoconsistent hashingnone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseSource-replica replication with selectable replication factornone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonowith Hadoop integrationyesno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseImmediate Consistencynone
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyes infoRelationships in graphsyes infoRelationships in graphs
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACIDACIDno
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyes infoby using LevelDByesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoTransient modenoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoCryptographically strong user authentication and audit trailRole-based access controlno

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