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

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NameMonetDB  Xexclude from comparisonOpenTSDB  Xexclude from comparisonRealm  Xexclude from comparisonTigerGraph  Xexclude from comparisonTinkerGraph  Xexclude from comparison
DescriptionA relational database management system that stores data in columnsScalable Time Series DBMS based on HBaseA DBMS built for use on mobile devices that’s a fast, easy to use alternative to SQLite and Core DataA 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 DBMSDocument storeGraph 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
Score7.41
Rank#52  Overall
#8  Document stores
Score1.80
Rank#138  Overall
#13  Graph DBMS
Score0.13
Rank#345  Overall
#35  Graph DBMS
Websitewww.monetdb.orgopentsdb.netrealm.iowww.tigergraph.comtinkerpop.apache.org/­docs/­current/­reference/­#tinkergraph-gremlin
Technical documentationwww.monetdb.org/­Documentationopentsdb.net/­docs/­build/­html/­index.htmlrealm.io/­docsdocs.tigergraph.com
DeveloperMonetDB BVcurrently maintained by Yahoo and other contributorsRealm, acquired by MongoDB in May 2019
Initial release20042011201420172009
Current releaseDec2023 (11.49), December 2023
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoMozilla Public License 2.0Open Source infoLGPLOpen SourcecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
DBaaS offerings (sponsored links) infoDatabase as a Service

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Implementation languageCJavaC++Java
Server operating systemsFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Windows
Android
Backend: server-less
iOS
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesschema-freeyesyesschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnumeric data for metrics, strings for tagsyesyesyes
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 indexesyesnoyesno
SQL infoSupport of SQLyes infoSQL 2003 with some extensionsnonoSQL-like query language (GSQL)no
APIs and other access methodsJDBC
native C library infoMAPI library (MonetDB application programming interface)
ODBC
HTTP API
Telnet API
GSQL (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
Java infowith Android only
Objective-C
React Native
Swift
C++
Java
Groovy
Java
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresyes, in SQL, C, Rnono inforuns within the applications so server-side scripts are unnecessaryyesno
Triggersyesnoyes infoChange Listenersnono
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesSharding via remote tablesSharding infobased on HBasenonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnone infoSource-replica replication available in experimental statusselectable replication factor infobased on HBasenonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyesno
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 datayesyesyesno
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesyesyesoptional
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyes infoIn-Memory realmnoyes
User concepts infoAccess controlfine grained access rights according to SQL-standardnoyesRole-based access controlno

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