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System Properties Comparison MonetDB vs. OpenTSDB vs. RavenDB vs. Splice Machine vs. Transbase

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NameMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonRavenDB  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonTransbase  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA relational database management system that stores data in columnsScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseOpen Source Operational and Transactional Enterprise NoSQL Document DatabaseOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkA resource-optimized, high-performance, universally applicable RDBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSTime Series DBMSDocument storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
Secondary database modelsDocument store
Spatial DBMS
Graph DBMS
Spatial DBMS
Time Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
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Score1.72
Rank#145  Overall
#67  Relational DBMS
Score1.68
Rank#146  Overall
#12  Time Series DBMS
Score2.92
Rank#101  Overall
#18  Document stores
Score0.54
Rank#250  Overall
#114  Relational DBMS
Score0.11
Rank#341  Overall
#150  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.monetdb.orgopentsdb.netravendb.netsplicemachine.comwww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase.html
Technical documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlravendb.net/­docssplicemachine.com/­how-it-workswww.transaction.de/­en/­products/­transbase/­features.html
DeveloperMonetDB BVcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsHibernating RhinosSplice MachineTransaction Software GmbH
Initial release20042011201020141987
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 20235.4, July 20223.1, March 2021Transbase 8.3, 2022
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoLGPLOpen Source infoAGPL version 3, commercial license availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availablecommercial infofree development license
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageCJavaC#JavaC and C++
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Linux
macOS
Raspberry Pi
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
FreeBSD
Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows
Data schemeyesschema-freeschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsnoyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyesyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnoSQL-like query language (RQL)yesyes
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP API
Telnet API
.NET Client API
F# Client API
Go Client API
Java Client API
NodeJS Client API
PHP Client API
Python Client API
RESTful HTTP API
JDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary native API
Supported programming languagesC
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
R
Ruby
Erlang
Go
Java
Python
R
Ruby
.Net
C#
F#
Go
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript
Kotlin
Objective-C
PHP
Python
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in SQL, C, Rnoyesyes infoJavayes
Triggersyesnoyesyesyes
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding via remote tablesSharding infobased on HBaseShardingShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioning
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusselectable replication factor infobased on HBaseMulti-source replicationMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
Source-replica replication
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoyesYes, via Full Spark Integrationno
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate Consistency infobased on HBaseDefault ACID transactions on the local node (eventually consistent across the cluster). Atomic operations with cluster-wide ACID transactions. Eventual consistency for indexes and full-text search indexes.Immediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesnonoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDnoACID, Cluster-wide transaction availableACIDyes
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesno
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoAuthorization levels configured per client per databaseAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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